I’ve written before about the Milwaukee Mental Health Complex, part of that county’s Behavioral Health Division. That facility has been a place of patient abuse and professional misconduct. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Milwaukee County won’t release study on mental facility: Auditor says information may aid probe into troubled complex.
Steve Shultze of the Journal Sentinel writes that
Lawyers for Milwaukee County have refused to turn over a 2008 consultant’s report on safety issues at the Mental Health Complex – the first time in 30 years that county officials have stonewalled a county auditor investigation, the current auditor said Thursday.
Jerry Heer said he was seeking the report as part of his probe of safety issues at the complex. That audit was ordered by County Board Chairman Lee Holloway in April, following Journal Sentinel coverage of a federal inspection of the complex that found multiple instances of patient sexual assault and the pregnancy of a patient.
One would like to say that, with much having gone wrong, someone would begin to take simple, honest steps to reveal precisely how much may have gone wrong. In his election year, we’re likely to find official honesty in Milwaukee County in short supply.
This issue will only go away when those responsible have been disciplined or removed entirely, and those who come after assure more humane treatment.
I’ve posted about Chianelli’s policy, and the tragedy that is conduct at the MHC, before. See, A Milwaukee County Bureaucrat’s Immoral Utilitarianism, Update: A Milwaukee County Bureaucrat’s Immoral Utilitarianism, Update 2, Update 3, Update 4, Update 5, Update 6, Update 7, Update 8, Update 9, Update 10, Update 11, Update 12, Update 13, Update 14, Update 15, Update 16, Update 17, Update 18, Update 19, and Update 20.