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Feds probe Iowa care home: Disabled 'not human guinea pigs'

by David Pitt
| December 23, 2020 12:06 AM

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has found a state-run care center for people with intellectual disabilities has likely violated the constitutional rights of residents by subjecting them to human experiments, some of which were deemed dangerous by federal investigators.

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