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Trapped Within a Failing System

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"I KNEW I was meant to document and expose what this institution was doing."

In 2019, Devi Woods was sent to Battell Hall, the general psychiatry unit of Connecticut Valley Hospital. She expected treatment. What she found, she says, was a system that restrained, secluded, and sedated patients instead of helping them heal.

So she started writing. Multiple times a day, every day, for two years.

Trapped Within a Failing System is that journal: 283 raw, unfiltered entries written from inside a loc...