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Advocates: Improve state schools immediately

December 8, 2008

Advocates for Texans with disabilities on Friday called on the state to take immediate action to improve conditions at institutions for people with mental retardation after a federal report this week said the facilities repeatedly fail to protect residents.

 

Representatives of Advocacy Inc., said Texas should stop admissions to all 13 facilities, known as state schools. They also called for the facilities to prohibit use of restraints, such as straitjackets, and stop dispensing psychiatric medication, except in cases that have been thoroughly reviewed.

 

“If not, more people are going to die,” said Beth Mitchell , managing attorney of Advocacy, a federally funded nonprofit that has the legal authority to investigate abuse and neglect cases at state schools. Mitchell has said the group will hire its own experts to investigate problems at the schools and will make recommendations to the state.

 

Read Article: Austin-American Statesman

 

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