Landmark Civil Rights Lawsuit Turns Horrific Mental Health Hospital into Model Facility
January 17, 2017
January 17, 2017
NEW YORK, Jan. 17 -- New York Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release:
Nearly ten years after filing a landmark civil rights lawsuit, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Mental Hygiene Legal Service and Kirkland & Ellis LLP have informed a court that the Kings County Hospital Center's psychiatric facilities have lived up to a 2010 settlement that required wholesale systemic changes to address dangerous and sometimes deadly conditions. The court granted thei . . .
Nearly ten years after filing a landmark civil rights lawsuit, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Mental Hygiene Legal Service and Kirkland & Ellis LLP have informed a court that the Kings County Hospital Center's psychiatric facilities have lived up to a 2010 settlement that required wholesale systemic changes to address dangerous and sometimes deadly conditions. The court granted thei . . .