Content warning: This story includes detailed descriptions of psychiatric hospitalization, involuntary confinement and allegations of medical neglect.
Tina Blackburn woke up in her rental car outside the locked doors of Medical Behavioral Hospital of Indianapolis in Greenwood, Indiana. Inside was her 35-year-old daughter, Jessica Ravellette.
Ravellette was a hundred miles from home when she arrived — delirious, “unable to keep eyes open consistently,” medical records documented. She’d been transferred from her local hospital after she had surgery on an abscess on her arm…