In Nancy Salerno’s eyes, prosecuting the people responsible for neglecting or abusing nursing home residents can be frustrating, especially without modern laws to rely on.

In addition, having to tell victims’ families that the person responsible for such abuse may never see jail time adds to such difficulty, said Salerno, an assistant state’s attorney and director of the state Division of Criminal Justice’s Medicaid Fraud & Abuse Control Unit.

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