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Locking Up the Mentally Ill Has a Long History

The prospect of removing people from communities to be put in institutions has been a project of social control.

by Elliott Young via Made By History on January 3, 2023

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Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington D.C.

Immigration and Mental Health Collide, Again

Trump's seeming mixup of asylum-seeking refugees with patients in psychiatric institutions stems from a long rhetorical and political tradition.

by Jeremy Peschard via The Abusable Past on June 20, 2024

Illustrated person in prison garb running away from a burning prison.

Cold War Flames on US Soil: The Oakdale Prison Riot

In the 1980s, Cold War tensions led to thousands of Cubans languishing in American prisons, unable to be released or repatriated. Uprisings followed.

by Mark Atwood Lawrence, Antonio Matheus, Michael Welch, Ethan A. Klingsberg via JSTOR Daily on November 17, 2022

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