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Institution News Watch
Year
12
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07
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2025
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Decades of Records From Massachusetts’ Troubled State Institutions Are Now Publicly Available
Jason Laughlin
08
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21
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2025
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Maryland violates 10-day law as defendants with mental illness languish in jail for months
Hannah Gaskill
07
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31
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2025
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Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People
Corey G. Johnson
06
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20
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2025
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Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursing homes, federal judge rules
Stephen Simpson
03
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24
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2025
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We Found Widespread Abuse of Disabled Patients at an Illinois Facility. The DOJ Is Investigating
by Beth Hundsdorfer & Molly Parker
03
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21
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2025
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Let Me Go: Excessive Restraint of Patients at College Hospital
Disability Rights California Investigations Unit
02
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20
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2025
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Colorado bill protecting disabled people from institutionalization advances
Olivia Young
01
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31
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2025
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Trump’s War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People
Julia Métraux
01
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15
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2025
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Mayor Eric Adams blasts critics of $650M plan to help NYC mentally ill, homeless
Kevin Sheehan & Aneeta Bhole
01
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13
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2025
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Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block
Phil Galewitz
12
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14
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2024
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Florida Made It Easier to Involuntarily Commit People. A New Lawsuit Says It’s Violating the Law
Julia Métraux
11
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22
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2024
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Georgians With Disabilities Are Still Being Institutionalized, Despite Federal Oversight
Sam Whitehead
11
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21
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2024
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After Institutions for People With Disabilities Close, Graves Are at Risk of Being Forgotten
Tony Leys
11
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21
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2024
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Black Bostonians are more likely to be sent for involuntary mental health institutionalization by clinicians
Hannah Reale
11
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14
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2024
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Feds investigating "unnecessary institutionalization" in Michigan's state psychiatric hospitals
Joseph Buczek
11
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13
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2024
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Justice Department Launches Disability Rights Investigation into Unnecessary Institutionalization in Michigan’s State Psychiatric Hospitals
DOJ Office of Public Affairs
11
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13
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2024
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Trump would like to bring back mental institutions, but experts are skeptical
Katie Riddle
11
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03
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2024
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The ‘really messy system’ that limits where millions of disabled people can vote
Eric Garcia
11
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01
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2024
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In Focus: Ending the institutionalization of children and keeping families together
UNICEF
10
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11
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2024
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Brown can help end institutionalization in Rhode Island. Will it?
Mike Woodilla
06
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20
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2024
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Missouri is breaking federal law by housing mentally ill in nursing homes, DOJ finds
Clara Bates
06
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18
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2024
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Justice Department Finds State of Missouri Unnecessarily Institutionalizes Adults with Mental Health Disabilities in Skilled Nursing Facilities in Violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Improperly Relies on Guardianship
DOJ Office of Public Affairs
05
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31
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2024
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Beyond Coercion and Institutionalization
ASAN
05
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23
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2024
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Access Above All
Alice Wong
05
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14
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2024
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Feds accuse Rhode Island of warehousing kids with mental health, developmental disabilities
Steve LeBlanc
05
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14
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2024
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Justice Department Finds Nebraska Violates Federal Civil Rights Laws by Unnecessarily Institutionalizing People with Serious Mental Illness
Office of Public Affairs Press Release
05
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12
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2024
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More Ohioans could be committed to a hospital against their will under proposed law
Erin Glynn
04
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30
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2024
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16,000 people with disabilities are in state-operated institutions. This is how experts say health care should change
Michael Roppolo
04
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16
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2024
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Could the U.S. force treatment on mentally ill people (again)?
Greg Rosalsky
03
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28
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2024
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No Place Like Home: People with Disabilities' Fight to Stay Out of Institutions
Taylor Mooney
03
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20
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2024
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6 reasons why damning report demands Bridgewater State Hospital close
Susannah Sudborough
03
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01
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2024
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California wants to force people into mental health care. Advocates say it will backfire
Maanvi Singh
02
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27
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2024
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Their disabled loved ones languished in state institutions. Now, they want the records
Jennifer Moore
02
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22
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2024
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A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home. She says no
Joseph Shapiro
02
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08
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2024
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In Crisis, She Went to an Illinois Facility. Two Years Later, She Still Isn’t Able to Leave.
Molly Parker & Beth Hundsdorfer
01
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01
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2024
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Mental hospitals warehoused the sick. Congress wants to let them try again.
Carmen Paun
10
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25
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2023
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Reckoning with the History of State Institutions for People with Disabilities
Alex Green
10
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10
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2023
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Gavin Newsom signs law in ‘overhaul’ of mental health system. It changes decades of practice
Jocelyn Wiener
07
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18
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2023
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Patients with substance use disorders need care, not coercion
John C. Messinger & Jacqueline Garza
06
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15
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2023
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Institutions Often Treat Disability and Mental Health Not With Care But Violence
George Yancy
11
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30
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2022
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Eric Adams' Plan To Involuntarily Hospitalize Mentally Ill Homeless People Will Face Legal Challenges
C.J. Ciaramella
11
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29
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2022
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New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets
Andy Newman & Emma G. Fitzsimmons
09
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01
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2021
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Seniors and People with Disabilities Want to Live in Our Homes, Not Nursing Homes. Will Congress Let Us?
Susan Mizner, Vikrum Aiyer & Aaron Madrid Aksoz
10
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22
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2017
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“Prisons Without Bars” – Forced Institutionalization of People with Disabilities
Jody Santos
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