Abstract

A multi‐year, comprehensive joint investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) District of Rhode Island earlier this month concluded that Rhode Island is in violation of federal civil rights laws for unnecessarily segregating children with mental health and/or developmental disabilities at a state acute‐care psychiatric facility.

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