There is a time and place for governmental regulation and intervention

[MillCreek]

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20130501/BIZ/705019820#Abused-disabled-Iowa-plant-workers-awarded-%24240M

And boy, this was it. 

[RoadKingLarry]

Ain't near enough. There needs to be criminal prosecution. I think a fitting punishment for those involved would be for them to live as they forced the disabled men to live, including the physical abuse, for the rest of their life.

[Bigjake]

Corporate aholes like that get stupid laws made for the rest of us.   Well done,  *expletive deleted*ers.   

Here's hoping the victims of this actually get their settlement,  rather than the courts saying "You get X",  from a company with no assets.

[MillCreek]

Ain't near enough. There needs to be criminal prosecution. I think a fitting punishment for those involved would be for them to live as they forced the disabled men to live, including the physical abuse, for the rest of their life.

+ eleventy.  This was cruel, calculated malice upon the most vulnerable of us.

[Jamisjockey]

Life would be simpler if the family members just strung the corporate aholes up. 

[roo_ster]

Life would be simpler if the family members just strung the corporate aholes up. 

Sadly, justice has been outlawed.

[TechMan]

Sadly, justice has been outlawed.

Very True.

[Tallpine]

So this requires government regulation 

I thought that assault and kidnapping were already crimes 

[MechAg94]

So this requires government regulation 

I thought that assault and kidnapping were already crimes 

Working conditions and other stuff are already covered also.  Enforcement is rarely addressed very well by politicians.

[Tallpine]

It's interesting that about a hundred years ago the US gov was sending out the military to protect the right of corporations to treat people like that