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McKee seeks go-ahead for Institute for Mental Disease.


PROVIDENCE  Decades after the much-heralded deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness, the new McKee administration is backing a plan to open a new Institute for Mental Disease on the Cranston campus of the state hospital.
During their heydey in the early 1950s, state mental hospitals across America held more than half a million patients. Rhode Island s own Institute of Mental Health had an estimated 3,000 of those.
As public psychiatric hospitals across America closed from the 1960s into the 1990s . that has resulted in record numbers of people with mental illness being imprisoned  often for such petty crimes as trespassing and shoplifting, and sometimes for no offense worse than annoying behavior, The Journal reported in 2014. ....

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