Protection from institutionalization for disabled people is a right that has been federally guaranteed since a 1999 Supreme Court case. Now, Colorado disability advocates are one step closer to ...

The President of the United States recently suggested we bring back institutions to house the mentally ill to help solve the country’s gun-violence epidemic. I beg to differ. Instead, I support the ...

Four different meanings of how 'institutionalization' in psychiatry is conceptualized were identified from sixty-one papers across eleven different countries, i.e. bricks and mortar of care ...

Judy Thompson fought to have her son, Alton, institutionalized when his mental illness spiraled out of control. The experience left both mother and son wary of the "civil confinement" process.

A homeless man sleeps outside The Billings Gazette in downtown Billings (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan). Social services leaders in Montana say a recent executive order from President ...

In a recent message to supporters, former President Donald Trump declared that, if he were again elected to the White House, he would “use every tool, lever, and authority to get the homeless off our ...

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As crypto adoption increases globally, it is essential that crypto exchanges prepare for institutionalization, the participation of banks, broker-dealers, payment providers, and the like, in order to ...

Background Since Goffman's seminal work on psychiatric institutions, deinstitutionalization has become a leading term in the psychiatric debate. It described the process of closure or downsizing of ...