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On May 10, 1974, the institution became a center for the care and treatment of the developmentally disabled only. [2] [3] All other patients were transferred to other mental health facilities and the institution became the Shapiro Developmental Center.
The plaintiff was a developmentally disabled man who had been sexually assaulted in 2017 at the Shapiro Developmental Center in Kankakee, Illinois. The assailant, Reverend Richard Jacklin, was arrested for the assault.
State schools are a type of institution for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States. These institutions are run by individual states. These state schools were and are famous for abuse and neglect. In many states, the residents were involuntary sterilized during the eugenics era.
David Meehan, 42, who says he was repeatedly raped, beaten and locked in solitary confinement at the Youth Development Center in Manchester in the late 1990s, went to police in 2017 and sued the ...
The watchdog overseeing agencies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker has referred 177 cases to law enforcement in which there was “reasonable cause to believe” a state worker “improperly obtained” a ...
A jury earlier this month sided with David Meehan, who alleged he was repeatedly raped, beaten and held in solitary confinement at the Youth Development Center in the 1990s. While that issue ...
In October 2019, Conlon and the diocese were named in a $100,000 sexual abuse lawsuit. The plaintiff was Barry Lowy, the legal guardian of a developmentally disabled man at Shapiro Developmental Center in Kankakee. The assailant was Reverend Richard Jacklin, who was discovered performing oral sex on the man in 2017.
Samuel Harvey Shapiro (born Israel Shapiro; April 25, 1907 – March 16, 1987) was an American politician, the 34th governor of Illinois, serving from 1968 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Abuse in the 1990s through 2010s. In the 1990s, after a teenage boy was found injured and lying in a pool of blood in a shower, a class-action lawsuit resulted in a settlement that stepped up the exodus of residents from developmental centers. 2000 citations
One of the jurors who awarded a New Hampshire man $38 million in a landmark lawsuit over abuse at the state’s youth detention center says the state is misinterpreting the verdict by capping the ...