Showing posts with label Leonora LaPeter Anton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonora LaPeter Anton. Show all posts

Thursday, November 5, 2015

14 people who didn't have to die in Florida’s mental hospitals

When Florida cut $100 million from mental hospitals and fired a third of their workers, patients paid the price — sometimes with their lives.
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THE PATIENTS
Miguel Menendez Carrera - Tuarus McNair
Luis Santana - Morris Celnikier
James Fleurant - James Bragman
Joerhonda Griffin - Taalib Glover
John Kenyon Whitaker - Steven A. Frank
Loida Espina - Michael Salacup
Blondine Williams - Rashida Wills


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article41984748.html#storylink=cpy

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Rick Scott's Florida: Mental Hospitals

I’m Leonora LaPeter Anton, a reporter for the 
Tampa Bay Times
I was one of three journalists who spent the past year reporting on a single subject: the violence and decay inside Florida’s mental hospitals. After a grueling reporting effort, here’s what we found.