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Public Crisis, Private Toll | A Seattle Times investigation: At Washington state’s private psychiatric hospitals, the full scope of safety incidents is effectively invisible to the public. Despite identifying serious violations, state regulators haven’t imposed a single penalty on such facilities in more than 13 years.