Washignton, D.C. Weighing the Rights and Care of People with Disabilities

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- What happens each day in Hearing Room 109 of D.C. Superior Court happens nowhere else in the country.
One by one, people like J., a man who has profound developmental disabilities and receives community services through the D.C. government, come before a judge for a mandatory annual review that examines almost every aspect of their lives. For J., it includes everything from how much money he has in the bank to what psychotropic drugs he's been prescribed to where he's been lately.