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Punching, predators, neglect. Traumatized NC children suffer inside dismal psychiatric centers
The FayetteVille Observers, 2021
Psychiatric residential youth facilities are supposed to be a safe space. But “Locked Away,” a USA TODAY Network-NC investigation, reveals children are not getting what they came for: treatment. Elizabeth wasn’t in prison, exactly. She was at Strategic Behavioral Health, a psychiatric residential institution for North Carolina kids, because she had been suicidal. The strip search was traumatic. Elizabeth is a sexual assault survivor, and she was supposed to be there for care, because she was in a fragile state.
Updated November 11, 2021.