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It's Different In Connecticut
In fairness to the work of our training schools for mental defectives, I wish to make a few comments on Mr. Richardson's article. I offer no rebuttal because I do not know where he has been working. I speak for the two Connecticut schools which I know well. It is not true that "the defective committed to [our] state institution[s] . . . receives little better than custodial care to the end of his days."...
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Title: It's Different In Connecticut
Creator: Charles X. Hutchinson (author)
Date: February 20, 1946
Format: Magazine
Publication: The Christian Century
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.63, pp.241-242
Keywords: Abuse; Advocacy; Attendants; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Civilian Public Service; Cognitive Disability; Connecticut; Conscientious Objectors; Correspondence; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Employment; Government; Government Agencies; Institutions; Jurisprudence; Labor; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Policy; Public Health; Punishments; Religion; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities; Work; WWII
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Note: Copyright 1946 Christian Century Foundation.
Reproduced by permission from the February 20, 1946 issue of the Christian Century. P.O. Box 378, Mt. Morris, IL 61054. 1-800-208-4097