The incarceration of a 6 year old in a psych hospital

The Palm Beach Post has a horror story about the incarceration of a 6 year old in a psych hospital.

The state of Florida locked away Isaiah White 11 months ago. They confined him in a place they call the "quiet room." They held him down and injected him with powerful drugs. They forced him into full-body restraints as he wriggled on the floor.

He was 6 years old.

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The state has billed Medicaid more than $100,000 for his treatment.

Child advocates are alarmed by Isaiah's case. Why, they ask, did the state treat a frightened first-grader like a psychotic adult? Is there no better way to discipline a 75-pound child?

"There is something seriously wrong with our mental health system," said Gerard Glynn, executive director of Florida's Children First, a coalition that represents children in state custody. "It is appalling.... I cannot understand, in a civilized society, locking up a 6-year-old child. Period."



It get's worse as you read it. It documents the slow destruction of a child