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Sun coverage: Rosewood under scrutiny

Coverage of a push by state regulators to cut off federal funding to the state's largest residential facility for disabled adults

August 20, 2008

Rosewood Center facing U.S. civil rights investigation

The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation of the long-troubled Rosewood Center to determine whether conditions at the state's largest facility for profoundly disabled adults violate the residents' civil rights.

June 15, 2008

Hospitals' acreage is lure for developers

Chicken coops and cornfields surrounded the state asylum in Owings Mills when it opened almost 120 years ago. The quiet countryside was considered by 19th-century health experts as the best place to care for the developmentally disabled, and over the years the number of patients grew from nine to nearly 3,000.

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