A disabled young patient was sent to get treatment. He was abused instead. And he wasn’t the last.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois and Lee Enterprises. As Blaine Reichard rose from a breakfast table at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in southern Illinois, a worker ordered him to pull up his sagging pants. A 24-year-old man with developmental disabilities, Reichard was … Continue reading A disabled young patient was sent to get treatment. He was abused instead. And he wasn’t the last.