From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:03:42 -0500, Bill Lucy  wrote:

> In article , gaw{at}sover.net
> says...
>> The point GB was making was that the facilities were already in
>> oversupply
>> once the pols started "mainstreaming" the mentally ill
into society by
>> making it harder to lock them up.  There are lots and lots of facilities
>> that had to be closed (or drastically downsized, even a heavy hitter
>> like
>> McLean) because of the large number of empty beds.  There are large
>> areas
>> now though without enough beds, especially for juvenile cases.
>
> The point that Rich and I were making is that a lot of these facilities
> were closed *prior* to the mainstreaming. Governor Thompson started
> closing facilities in Illinois in the early 80s, and it wasn't because
> of lawsuits.
>

The mainstreaming started as early as the 1960s.

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Gary Wiltshire

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