24.06.2018 - 08:48 [ CNN ]

Handcuffs, assaults, and drugs called ‚vitamins‘: Children allege grave abuse at migrant detention facilities

The allegations in these documents, as well as recent facility inspection reports and other lawsuits, range from unsanitary conditions and invasive monitoring of mail and phone calls to unair-conditioned rooms in hot Texas summers and dosing children with cocktails of psychotropic drugs disguised as vitamins. At one facility, children recounted being held down for forcible injections, which medical records show are powerful antipsychotics and sedatives.