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Pontiac Psychiatric Hospital: The Wages of Sin Is Bankruptcy

Chapter 11 filing comes on the heels of Pontiac’s loss of federal funding after credible charges of abuse, violence and one preventable death. 

MENTAL HEALTH

Pontiac Hospital Latest in Tsunami of Reports of Violence and Abuse at Psychiatric Institutions

A Michigan psychiatric hospital loses government funding over abuse allegations that include an unwarranted death and coercion to receive dangerous treatment. 

MENTAL HEALTH

“I Was Not Suicidal When I Entered, But I Was When I Left”—Crime & Chaos at DC Psychiatric Institute

Psychiatric Institute of Washington, DC, the city’s only for-profit mental hospital, is home to “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”

MENTAL HEALTH

Culture of Violence, Rape and Death Exposed at Maryland Psychiatric Hospital

Clifton T. Perkins psychiatric hospital has been the center of wrongdoing, from bullying and a restraining order to mismanagement leading to at least one patient death.