Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s a
scandal involving horrific abuse at a residential treatment center.
No, not the one in Arizona, or the one in Kentucky, or the
one in Tennessee, or Indiana, or Utah, or Oklahoma, or Washington state or
Arkansas, or Connecticut or — well, you get the idea.
This time it’s Rhode Island. But don’t worry. Some Rhode
Island lawmakers have come up with the perfect solution: Put locked suggestion
boxes in all the group homes and institutions! And that was only the second
worst idea to come from legislators or state officials. …