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February 5, 2009
 U.S. Department of Justice Investigation of Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Unit
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) started a Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons investigation
of the psychiatric unit operations at New York City's Kings County
Hospital Center in December 2007. The investigation period covered the spring, summer, and fall of 2008.
DOJ found that conditions at the psychiatric unit violated patients? civil
rights. Problems included fire safety, sanitation, processes that led to neglect
of patients, overuse of restraints, overuse of medication to sedate patients,
failure to develop treatment plans, and failure to prevent patient aggression
toward other patients.
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