Failures to provide treatment for kids with mental illness and histories of violence have left them in jails, families desperate, and community safety at risk.
A lawmaker lobbied to build the state’s only hospital for severely mentally ill children in Willmar. But without staffing, only 3 to 4 are there are a time.
Mentally ill kids caught in a failing juvenile justice system go through a merry-go-round of crimes, languish in detention, locked in solitary and denied treatment