Asylums Closed News Today

Any local mental health services. the asylums closed, and people had nowhere to go. >> so would you say what were experiencing is a direct result of that failure going back to the 1970s when deinstitutionalization happened? >> absolutely. we tore down what were considered to be horrible state hospitals with the goal of building up community, but we never created the platforms for them to do it. >> and today in los angeles, by latest count, some 16,000 severely mentally ill people are living on t...