Jul 27, 2022
Anne E. Parsons (UNC Greensboro)
From asylum to prison:
Deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after
1945
To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments
took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary
confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental
health...