One of the most significant medical and social initiatives of the twentieth century was the demolition of the traditional state hospitals that housed most of th

The author is a social worker who writes with experience, authority, and compassion about what really happened when thousands of mental patients were discharged

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and

This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towards deinsti

America started a grand experiment in the 1960s: deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. The consequences were very destructive: homelessness; a degradation