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US investigates Alaska's psychiatric treatment of children

January 29, 2021 GMT
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether the state of Alaska unnecessarily institutionalizes children with behavioral problems.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said Jan. 21 it had launched an investigation into a complaint from the Alaska Disability Law Center, Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday.
Leslie Jaehning, the center’s attorney, said the complaint filed last year focuses on a rising number of Alaska children and teenagers sent to psychiatric treatment facilities in other states, along with hospitals in Alaska, because of limited, less-restrictive treatment options.
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A letter from attorney Patrick Holkins with the Civil Rights Division said the investigation is being conducted “to determine whether the State of Alaska unnecessarily institutionalizes children with behavioral health conditions, in violation of Title II of the Americans with D ....

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Justice Department opens civil rights probe into whether Alaska 'unnecessarily institutionalizes' children

Justice Department opens civil rights probe into whether Alaska ‘unnecessarily institutionalizes’ children
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The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether the state of Alaska “unnecessarily institutionalizes” children with behavioral problems.
In 2020, the Alaska Disability Law Center lodged a complaint about the rising number of Alaska children and teenagers being sent to Outside psychiatric treatment facilities as well as locked hospitals in-state because of a dearth of less-restrictive treatment options here, said the center’s attorney, Leslie Jaehning.
On Jan. 21, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division notified the organization that it has launched an investigation. ....

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