Paging Nelly Bly:

MURRAYVILLE, Georgia (CNN) — A few weeks before
13-year-old Jonathan King killed himself, he told his parents that his
teachers had put him in “time-out.”

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But time-out in the boy’s north
Georgia special education school was spent in something akin to a
prison cell — a concrete room latched from the outside, its tiny
window obscured by a piece of paper.

Called a seclusion room,
it’s where in November 2004, Jonathan hanged himself with a cord a
teacher gave him to hold up his pants.

An attorney representing the school has denied any wrongdoing.

Seclusion rooms, sometimes called time-out rooms, are used across the
nation, generally for special needs children. Critics say that along
with the death of Jonathan, many mentally disabled andautistic children have been injured or traumatized.

Few states have laws on using seclusion rooms, though 24 states have
written guidelines, according to a 2007 study conducted by aClemson University researcher.

Texas, which was included in that study, has stopped using seclusion and restraint.Georgia has just begun to draft guidelines, four years after Jonathan’s death.

Via ONTD_Political.

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