Despite a half dozen state and federal probes this year critical of conditions at the Delaware Psychiatric Center, attendants are still retaliating against nurses who report them for patient abuse and neglect, a nurse manager told her state representative in an e-mail sent last week.She knows what’s at risk by coming forward. Other nurses who reported abuse and neglect at the facility have been threatened, demoted or fired. “This is the union that so vigorously defends staff who, at the very least, put our patients at risk, demean them or neglect them, and at the worst actually do physical harm,” Papi wrote. After she began reporting problem attendants in the Sussex 3 unit for abuse and neglect, Papi said, the attendants retaliated by circulating a petition calling for her removal from the unit. Read more