'Time Warp' in Texas On Mental-Ill Care -- Era of Insane Asylums Lives On, Critics Charge

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DENTON, Texas - For more than a century, thousands of mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by being confined to huge state institutions .

In at least one place, they still are.

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'Time Warp' in Texas On Mental-Ill Care -- Era of Insane Asylums Lives On, Critics Charge

Texas has more mentally disabled patients in institutions than any other state, and the federal government has concluded that the state's care system is stubbornly out of...

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