Posted on Sun, Sep. 7, 2008
New Jersey officials say the Justice Department is investigating whether Ancora Psychiatric Hospital violated patients' rights.
Officials in the state Department of Human Services disclosed that Assistant Attorney General Grace Chung Becker had written to tell them the investigation would focus on whether patients were safe at Ancora, which is in Winslow Township.
The hospital has been plagued in recent years by problems including suspicious deaths, assaults, high-profile escapes, and reports that drugs have been smuggled in. - AP