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The original research of The Vermont Eugenics Survey of the 1920s and ’30s led to institutionalization and to the Vermont Legislature legalizing involuntary sterilization for so-called defective citizens in 1931.
At the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, a troubled girl was held in isolation and subjected to violent restraints — even as advocates pressed for reforms at the facility. The full story of what she endured inside Woodside, which was run by the Department for Children and Families before it was shuttered, has never been told — until now.