State psychiatric hospital under investigation for racism

The Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital. Photo by Roger Crowley/for VTDigger
The state Human Rights Commission has found that the Vermont Department of Mental Healthillegally discriminated against an employee of the state psychiatric hospital. Commission investigators heard complaints from other hospital employees of color, who told of enduring racist attitudes and comments dating back more than a decade. One employee said he found the word “nigger” scrawled on the windshield of his ca