From the New York Times, I'm Ketchin Ben Holt, and this is the Daily. A Times investigation into a leading chain of psychiatric hospitals in the US

reveals a world where profits trump medical needs and patients are detained against their will.

Today my colleague Jessica Silver Greenberg on the story of one woman trapped inside.

It's Thursday, September 26.

It's Thursday, September 26. 26th. So Jessica, earlier this year you started looking into abuses in the mental health

care sector.

What made you dig into this one major chain of psychiatric hospitals?

Well, I'm an investigative reporter on the business desk

and I look at how big businesses collide with ordinary Americans and basically how those companies

affect their lives. So last year my reporting partner Katie Thomas and I

while working on another series of stories about health care,

got a tip. It was more of a whisper.

It was something like,

you guys should take a look at a company called Acadia Health Care.

At the time, that honestly didn't mean that much to us.

We had no idea what Acadia was, certainly not a household name, but when we started

digging in we got actually really interested, because it turns out that

Acadia is one of America's largest chains of psychiatric hospitals.

I mean, I have never heard of Acadia. so what's the story of this company?

So the story of Acadia is really a broader story of how Americans today receive mental health care. So a kitty gets its start in 2005 and

it's entering this new niche because mental health care used to be provided by essentially two big groups,

nonprofit hospital systems or the government.

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