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Her daughter, Caitlin, tells Aviv the story — evidence of the tragic fallout of deinstitutionalization, “a nationwide social experiment that did not go as planned.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The deinstitutionalization revolution in the mid-1960s began to redress the needs of people with developmental disabilities in the U.S., including autistic people.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 13, 2023
But if these flawed plans force a national confrontation with both the limits of involuntary treatment and the consequences of deinstitutionalization, we might start to move toward a mental health system that works for everyone.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
State psychiatric hospitals were the norm for much of the 20th century, but in 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Act, marking the start of deinstitutionalization.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
While these reforms were desperately needed, deinstitutionalization intersected with the spread of mass imprisonment policies—expanding criminal statutes and harsh sentencing—to disastrous effect.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
