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Willowbrook State School
Former institution for intellectually disabled children
Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Staten Island in New York City, which operated from 1947 until 1987.
The school was designed for 4,000, but by 1965 it had a population of 6,000. At the time, it was the biggest state-run institution for people with mental disabilities in the United States.[1] Conditions and questionable medical practices and experiments prompted US Senator Robert F.
Kennedy to call it a "snake pit".[2] The institution gained national infamy in 1972, when Geraldo Rivera did an exposé on the conditions there.[3] Public outcry led to its closure in 1987, and to federal civil rights legislation protecting people with disabilities.
A February 2020 New York Times investigation found that the alumni of Willowbrook continue to be abused in smaller grou