Henry Gaymon speaks quickly, racing through the many stages of his troubled past, jumping back and forth between time spent in school, jail and mental institutions. One thing is clear: Living a normal ...

There’s a stream that cuts across the grounds of Central Louisiana State Hospital, traversing its rolling hills dotted with age-old oak trees. To the right of its entrance, bleachers and a fence, ...

The institutionalization of people with disabilities in Massachusetts is one of our state’s more shameful episodes. Yet the records needed to document that time have generally been closed to both ...

THE 1926 CENSUS records indicate that over half of the 16,000 people recorded as being in institutions at the time were confined to mental hospitals. The Census data, which was published last weekend, ...