He was strapped down for hours at this L.A. hospital
Marcelus Laidler was strapped down for at least 300 hours at L.A. General — a public hospital serving some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the nation’s most populous county.
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An L.A. Times investigation found that patients at L.A. General’s Augustus F. Hawkins Mental Health Center in South L.A. were restrained at a higher rate than in any other psychiatric inpatient unit in California. But those numbers do not give a full picture of restraint use, as they don’t include psychiatric patients admitted to other units of the hospital - like Marcelus Laidler.
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