Institutionalization is a kind of arbitrary detention; left-leaning civil liberties types were against it too. I'm not an expert on this time period but the sto

Institutionalization is a kind of arbitrary detention; left-leaning civil liberties types were against it too. I'm not an expert on this time period but the story I learned is that by the time Reagan defunded the hospitals they were already mostly empty, having lost the authority to hold all but the most extreme cases.