The Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, New York, became a national symbol of institutional abuse and neglect. Opened in 1947 to care for children with intellectual disabilities, it soon became severely overcrowded; by 1965, more than 6,000 residents lived in a facility built for 4,000. That same year, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy toured Willowbrook and publicly condemned what he saw. He described people living in “filth and dirt” in rooms like “a snake pit,” drawing major public and po
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