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Abuses at Texas state schools go unpunished

Posted on July 26th, 2007

A Dallas Morning News investigation into disciplinary records of employees at state schools for the mentally retarded “ found hundreds of cases of abuse at the hands of those charged with caring for the mentally retarded

Posted in Education, Justice (courts/crime/law), Social issues
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