A New York State psychiatric center operated illegally with impunity while two dead bodies, 40 assaults and 25 sex offenses triggered police responses behind its walls from 2012 to 2016, The Journal News/lohud has found.
The newly obtained tally of violence, roughly one attack per month, is part of 210 criminal incidents at Central New York Psychiatric Center. Much of the violence involved the mentally ill men locked up there, and it unfolded without the independent monitor required by law.
From rapes and beatings to illicit drug use and falsified treatment records, the incidents offered a rare look into problems inside the closely guarded psychiatric center, according to records obtained by The Journal News/lohud through Freedom of Information Law requests.
Reports of abuse and neglect extended into the misuse of medication, gaps in video surveillance and flawed record-keeping involved in keeping sex offenders locked up indefinitely at the site in Marcy, a rural town 50 miles east of Syracuse.
Shut it down! Shut ’em all down!
It is unfathomable that we do this kind of thing in the United States of America. There is no accountability on the part of these hospitals/staff/doctors and somehow our government agencies like the DOJ just looks the other way. How are these citizens’ rights protected. It’s like blind leading the blind. No one is allowed to oversee the actions of the State.
There should be oversight…………and yes, these hospitals should be shut down for good