Today's hall of shame award goes to Ohio. An investigation by the Cincinnati Enquirer resulted in a new report that finds:

At Ohio psychiatric centers, workers molested children, denied them food or gave them alcohol and drugs. Some kids suffered broken bones. Others lived in homes so dirty they urinated on the floor by their beds. Taxpayers shell out $160 to $1,000 a day for each mentally ill child who lives in these private treatment centers.

Why are these kids in private facilities subsidized by the state? Because Ohio closed all its juvenile hospital facilities:

...the state closed most of its mental institutions in the late 1980s and early 1990s - and created few programs to replace them. Ohio once operated 17 mental hospitals caring for more than 20,000 children and adults. Today, the state runs nine hospitals caring for 1,100 adults - and no children.

If this article doesn't ruin your day, nothing will.