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The Willowbrook Wars - Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community (Hardcover)
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The Willowbrook Wars - Bringing the Mentally Disabled into the Community (Hardcover)
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The Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the
effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its
5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York. The wars
began in 1972 with Geraldo Rivera's televised raid on the
Willowbrook State School. They continued for three years in a
federal courtroom, with civil libertarian lawyers persuading a
conservative and conscience-stricken judge to expand the rights of
the disabled, and they culminated in a 1975 consent decree, with
the state of New York pledging to accomplish the unprecedented
assignment in six years. From 1975 to 1982, David and Sheila
Rothman observed this remarkable chapter in American reform of
mental disabilities care. Would the state live up to its agreement
without "dumping" residents into other nightmarish institutions?
Would the lawyers prove as interested in meeting client needs as in
securing client rights? Could a tradition-bound bureaucracy create
a new network of community services? And finally, would a governor
and a legislature tolerate such outside intervention, and if so,
for how long? In answering these questions, The Willowbrook Wars
takes us behind the scenes to clarify the role of the judiciary,
the fate of the underprivileged, and the potential for social
justice. In their new afterword, the authors bring the story up to
date, describing the results of the closing of the institution in
1987 from the experiences of integrating the former residents into
communities to the legal battles between the state of New York and
advocates for the mentally handicapped.
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