America spent fifty years dismantling the state psychiatric hospitals. In their place, we have created an "invisible asylum" that condemns the mentally ill to the street, the prison, and the emergency room. Here's my reporting on this human catastrophe.https://www.city-journal.org/olympia-washington-mental-hospitals …
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Reagan may have signed the bill, but the push to empty all the mental institutions was a darling and much-pushed and passionate cause of primarily the left, not conservatives. For years. I was alive then, and I remember.
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