institutionalization
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In the wake of the hearings, in July 1957, Republican Gov. Goodwin Knight signed the Short-Doyle Act, providing $850,000 to create the clinics to divert patients from institutionalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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
Her uncle took the secret of his mother’s institutionalization to his grave, Arnold said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Led by a Black janitor at Moshe’s theater, the town comes together to protect a deaf boy from institutionalization.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 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
