Six families sue state over 'unlawful, inhumane, cruel' treatment at Nampa facility

Families of several patients are suing the state over abuse that was discovered at the Southwest Idaho Treatment Center in Nampa.

They filed the lawsuit this week as a class action against the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and the center, which is also known as SWITC, or by its former moniker, the “state school.”

Their lawsuit accuses SWITC of “unlawful, inhumane, cruel and indefensible treatment.”

The families have a couple of goals, their lawyers told the Idaho Statesman on Thursday: They want the state to develop an “Olmstead plan” for SWITC residents to live in the community instead of being institutionalized; and they do not want the facility to continue operating as it does now.

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