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Coming Thursday: Insane. Invisible. In danger.

 
Published Oct. 27, 2015

Years of neglect and $100 million in budget cuts have created chaos at Florida's mental hospitals, leaving violent patients unsupervised and easily able to attack workers and other patients. The Tampa Bay Times and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune spent more than a year tracking the violence, which state officials ignored as they continue to cut. Read the series starting Thursday on tampabay.com.