3. Executive Summary

Photo: Klatovy Hospital Psychiatric Department © MDAC

It is a feeling like you were closed as if you were an animal. As if you weren’t a human. They treat you as someone even lower than an animal. [...] I saw the other patient across the room that was there [in the cage] for a really long time, I don’t know how long. She was there all the time. She kept hanging on the cage, pulling it.

MDAC Testimony of a cage bed survivor