A court-ordered report shows that the District fails to properly serve some of its developmentally disabled residents.

For more than three decades, the city has failed to fully comply with a court ruling that found that D.C. violated the rights of some of the city’s institutionalized, developmentally disabled residents’ rights to be free from harm and to be given necessary support.

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