Don’t forget the war on drugs

  • @Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    TBH, the mental hospitals were a mess and rife with abuse.

    But rather that invest money into improving them, he got rid of them by branding it “de-institutionalization”. Made it sound like he was freeing people.

    • PeripheralGhostOP
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      14 months ago

      I recall seeing that exposé Geraldo Rivera did on Staten Island’s Willowbrook State School. Wild.