Description To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era.
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Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance.
Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the Asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization.
State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down.
Description To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era