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Institution News Watch

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2025

We Found Widespread Abuse of Disabled Patients at an Illinois Facility. The DOJ Is Investigating.

by Beth Hundsdorfer & Molly Parker

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2025

Colorado bill protecting disabled people from institutionalization advances

Olivia Young

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2025

Trump’s War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People

Julia Métraux

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2025

Mayor Eric Adams blasts critics of $650M plan to help NYC mentally ill, homeless

Kevin Sheehan & Aneeta Bhole

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Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block

Phil Galewitz

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2024

Florida Made It Easier to Involuntarily Commit People. A New Lawsuit Says It’s Violating the Law.

Julia Métraux

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2024

Georgians With Disabilities Are Still Being Institutionalized, Despite Federal Oversight

Sam Whitehead

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2024

After Institutions for People With Disabilities Close, Graves Are at Risk of Being Forgotten.

Tony Leys

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2024

Black Bostonians are more likely to be sent for involuntary mental health institutionalization by clinicians

Hannah Reale

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2024

Feds investigating "unnecessary institutionalization" in Michigan's state psychiatric hospitals

Joseph Buczek

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2024

Justice Department Launches Disability Rights Investigation into Unnecessary Institutionalization in Michigan’s State Psychiatric Hospitals

DOJ Office of Public Affairs

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2024

Trump would like to bring back mental institutions, but experts are skeptical.

Katie Riddle

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2024

The ‘really messy system’ that limits where millions of disabled people can vote.

Eric Garcia

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2024

In Focus: Ending the institutionalization of children and keeping families together

UNICEF

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2024

Brown can help end institutionalization in Rhode Island. Will it?

Mike Woodilla

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2024

Missouri is breaking federal law by housing mentally ill in nursing homes, DOJ finds

Clara Bates

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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

DOJ Office of Public Affairs

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2024

Beyond Coercion and Institutionalization

ASAN

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2024

Access Above All

Alice Wong

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2024

Feds accuse Rhode Island of warehousing kids with mental health, developmental disabilities

Steve LeBlanc

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2024

Justice Department Finds Nebraska Violates Federal Civil Rights Laws by Unnecessarily Institutionalizing People with Serious Mental Illness

Office of Public Affairs Press Release

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More Ohioans could be committed to a hospital against their will under proposed law

Erin Glynn

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2024

16,000 people with disabilities are in state-operated institutions. This is how experts say health care should change.

Michael Roppolo

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2024

Could the U.S. force treatment on mentally ill people (again)?

Greg Rosalsky

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2024

No Place Like Home: People with Disabilities' Fight to Stay Out of Institutions

Taylor Mooney

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2024

6 reasons why damning report demands Bridgewater State Hospital close

Susannah Sudborough

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California wants to force people into mental health care. Advocates say it will backfire

Maanvi Singh

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2024

Their disabled loved ones languished in state institutions. Now, they want the records.

Jennifer Moore

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2024

A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home. She says no

Joseph Shapiro

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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

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Mental hospitals warehoused the sick. Congress wants to let them try again.

Carmen Paun

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Gavin Newsom signs law in ‘overhaul’ of mental health system. It changes decades of practice

Jocelyn Wiener

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2023

Patients with substance use disorders need care, not coercion

John C. Messinger & Jacqueline Garza

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2023

Institutions Often Treat Disability and Mental Health Not With Care But Violence

George Yancy

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2022

Eric Adams' Plan To Involuntarily Hospitalize Mentally Ill Homeless People Will Face Legal Challenges

C.J. Ciaramella

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2022

New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentally Ill People From Streets

Andy Newman & Emma G. Fitzsimmons

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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

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2017

“Prisons Without Bars” – Forced Institutionalization of People with Disabilities

Jody Santos

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