This is very sad. But for perspective, this was written about a Massachusetts hospital for mentally ill criminals, so it is state run and part of the criminal justice system (and many of the patients/inmates here are violent criminals). A friend of mine and a professor both have worked here and both described it as, from their end as young female clinicians, pretty scary.

As a kid I was a patient in locked ward, and while it was traumatic, it wasn't as awful or degrading as this article describes -and I did NOT want to be there. But the staff was very kind and for the most part as helpful as they could be. It was not a fancy hospital at all (like McLean's hospital, which is beautiful and for the rich) though it was private. They are not pleasant places to be by any means, but this is an example of the worst that most of us would not be in. At least not where this one is located, in Massachusetts.