After 25-year-old Brandon Johnson died while in custody at Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex in 2012, his family relied on Disability Rights Wisconsin for justice.

Johnson’s death was one of six in 2012 at the mental health institution. Disability Rights Wisconsin hired an independent doctor who found that care at the facility was so poor it should be closed. The nonprofit advocacy group later helped plan how best to transfer residents to other programs when the troubled institution shuttered its long-term care units.