The company that owns one of Alaska’s main psychiatric hospitals for children made over $13 billion last year, profiting greatly from states placing foster children in their care.
Former foster child Trina Edwards cycled in and out of North Star Behavioral Health in Anchorage, where she experienced physical and chemical restraints, seclusion and a feeling of hopelessness from thinking she’d never get out.
Julia Lurie spent a year investigating UHS for the Mother Jones story, poring over court documents from lawsuits and interviewing child welfare experts and policymakers, as well as former North Star employees and patients.: So Trina Edwards is a former foster kid. She spent years cycling in and out of North Star, the psychiatric facility. She’s 23 years old now, but she was admitted to North Star for the first time when she was 12 years old.
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