To 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 psychiatri
"Prisons and asylums developed in parallel in the United States as institutions dedicated to the quarantine, detention, and punishment of the socially marginal.
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society fo
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