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Criminslizing poverty and mental health is Reagan’s most lasting impact even above his trickle down economics garabage.
This wasn’t a partisan thing.
Here in Indiana it was Gov. Bayh who closed Central State. It was backlash to the mental hospital depiction in movies, TV, and news stories. (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” for example.)
Chris B. you must also realize that every state in the country shut down their state mental health hospitals. Gov. Bayh was falling in line with what the leading political party at that time was doing nationwide. This is one of many reasons so many homeless people are on the streets. Prior to the hospital closing, Indy didn’t really have as much of a homeless issue, at least not as visual