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Equip for Equality, Inc.
Beleaguered Howe Developmental Center Remains Open Despite Additional Deaths and Ongoing Violations of Human Rights
August 2nd, 2008
The Howe Developmental Center remains open for business, despite the continued horrific conditions that led the Federal Government to decertify it over a year ago. Incredibly, Howe has lived on even though disturbing details cry out for closure: loss of millions of Medicaid dollars; seven investigative accounts by Equip for Equality describing in gruesome detail the deaths of 21 people and multiple instances of abysmal care; and the initiation of a United States Department of Justice investigation into violations of the Constitutional rights of the people living there. Repeated efforts by Equip for Equality along with other advocacy organizations and people with...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-08-02)
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