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America Emptied Its Asylums. What Replaced Them?
A new examination revisits America's decades-long closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asks what took their place. The deinstitutionalization movement, beginning in the mid-20th century, shut down most asylums, but critics argue community-based care never adequately filled the gap, leaving many people with severe mental illness on the streets or in prisons.
Why now: Ongoing debate over mental health care, homelessness and criminalization keeps the legacy of deinstitutionalization under scrutiny
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