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Published March 24, 2006
[ From the Lansing State Journal ]

State wants sanctions against Highfields
Facility could lose its license for violations

By Hugh Leach
Lansing State Journal


ONONDAGA - The state Department of Human Services is recommending disciplinary action against Highfields Inc. that could include revocation of its license.

The agency's investigation showed the juvenile care facility violated several standards for overseeing youths who were housed there.

The violations validate two previously publicized allegations: that staffers used "excessive physical restraint" by taking a boy outside in the cold without a coat for up to an hour and that a staffer condoned and failed to report a hazing incident in which boys pelted a newcomer with shampoo, shaving cream cans and spoiled milk while he was in the shower.

 

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