I thought the shuttering of asylums started well before Reagan.
There is absolutely nothing humane about leaving those people who are genuinely mentally ill to fend for themselves on the streets. As always, the ACLU has it completely, totally wrong.
No question, a lot of institutions were snake pits, but reforms could have been instituted.
“I thought the shuttering of asylums started well before Reagan.”
It did, Jimmy Carter started it, the left likes to blame Reagan.