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  "textContent": "The former chief medical officer at Connecticut's only maximum security psychiatric hospital calls it a \"dehumanizing\" device that he would never use. And yet spit hoods are employed in medical settings in many US states. In an in-depth investigation for the Seattle Times , Hannah Furfaro reports that state-run psychiatric facilities...",
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