I don't think it was the change in law, but the defunding of mental health services that followed the closing of the psychiatric institutions. http://www.nytim

I don't think it was the change in law, but the defunding of mental health services that followed the closing of the psychiatric institutions. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men...