institutionalization

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MOCA’s permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art’s full-scale institutionalization.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

The third piece of the Cicero platform is to expand civil commitment laws, which permit the involuntary hospitalization or institutionalization of people with mental illnesses.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025

This in turn makes it more likely that older adults can avoid institutionalization and stay in their own homes.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2024

He wrote that he was “very sick” and suggested that he had lied about his health to avoid further treatment or institutionalization.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Legal rulings empowered people with developmental disabilities to refuse treatment and created rights for the mentally disabled that made forced institutionalization much less common.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson