The Senate Finance Committee's report "Warehouses of Neglect: How Taxpayers Are Funding Systemic Abuse in Youth Residential Treatment Facilities" is mind blowing  🤯 Allegations were found of systemic and severe physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as well as inadequate care,

Yesterday was the Full Committee Hearing on Youth Residential Treatment Facilities: Examining Failures and Evaluating Solutions. Nest week we present part 3 of our TTI webinar series. Register at: americanbar.org/groups/diversi…

“What the report revealed today was systematic taxpayer funded abuse & neglect in these facilities,” James said Paris Hilton @SICAA_Federal Sir Crypto Marissa Linderman @Sandinista412 End The TTI Demanding Justice Beth Morrison Chelsea Maldonado Sarah Golightley waff.com/2024/06/13/sen…

"Over the same period, 31 states spent more than $600 million on the treatment of foster children at the company’s facilities. As one expert put it, to UHS and its competitors, foster kids are a “gold mine.” #UHS #TroubledTeenIndustry motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Thursday 11 July at 11:30 in TL455, join me, Martha O’Carroll, Sarah Golightley, Sarah Armstrong and Betsy Barkas as we bring together our perspectives on prisons, community justice, youth justice, and borders to discuss how states enact carceral projects through "care" #BSC2024

Reminder to the Americans living abroad. It only takes a couple of minutes to fill in... votersabroad.org/?share=1

One of the disabled children we advocate for is being placed in a SHED—yes, you read that correctly—a shed on his school playground in England. Starting tomorrow, he will be in this shed. Shockingly, the school and others seem fine with this arrangement. Photos to come...

New publication alert! Our article is FINALLY available to read. Check it out on Disability Studies Quarterly (an open access journal)! My coauthors are pretty cool, too 💚

This is tomorrow! Please join us in Glasgow to talk about madness with @blefrancois.bsky.social - you wont want to miss it

Thank you so much to Bren and to everyone who came along. What a great seminar - it sparked rich and radical conversations. I hope we can keep the conversation going and think about what next for Mad Studies in Scotland.