How the country’s biggest psychiatric hospital chain is profiting off kids trapped in a broken child welfare system.
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Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a ‘Gold Mine’
How a scandal-plagued health care giant profits off a failing child welfare system.
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The bad place
The graffiti says it all: “This is a bad place.” Why do states send children to facilities run by Sequel, after dozens of cases of abuse?
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As opioid crisis strains foster care, states aren’t tracking the damage
In states hit hard by the opioid epidemic, directly connecting child removals to a specific drug type is nearly impossible.
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No place to run
In Texas, the foster care system is failing the vulnerable children it’s meant to protect, leaving many without a safe place to live. Foster children