From Asylum to Prison Jack Schaffer and activists who've taught workshops

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Stripping away the confusion and anxiety about what next

enlightened

When Nell Larson complained that someone was spooking her cattle late at night

and identify possibilities for the future

From Asylum to Prison Jack Schaffer and activists who've taught workshopsTo many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance.