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