Originally opening as the Eastern Pennsylvania Institution for the Feebleminded and Epileptic near the town of Spring Hill in 1908, the facility would ultimately be known as the Pennhurst State School and Hospital up until its court-ordered closure in 1987. At its height in 1955, the facility housed 3,500 "patients" in severely overcrowded, understaffed, and squalid conditions. The facility would become ground zero in the fight for Civil Rights for the disabled and institutionalized, which ultimately lead to the closure of numerous facilities on the same and similar grounds. And this, in turn, added an even greater impetus to the institutionalization movement which became increasingly prevalent throughout this time period. Unlike most of the facilities that I've produced videos around, Pennhurst was actually planned and established around an inherently evil premise, too. The neglect, abuse, and hopelessness that permeated throughout its eight decades of operation is all very well documented...as is all that occurred after its court-ordered closure,.
Негізгі бет The Pennhurst State School and Hospital (1908-1987)
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