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Were these law irrevocable? If not, every governor and state legislature since then are also complicit.
by Mountain_Skies 5y ago
Were these law irrevocable? If not, every governor and state legislature since then are also complicit.
- devilbunny 5y agoThe laws were not. The judicial decisions that made it far more difficult to hold people against their will - which ultimately drove a lot of deinstitutionalization; the asylums were closed mostly as a response, not a cause - are effectively irrevocable.