More than half a century ago, William Bronston applied to work at the now-shuttered Willowbrook State School on Staten Island without knowing exactly what things were like behind its walls.
Institutionalization was society’s default strategy for dealing with mental illness in those days, and thousands of people with developmental disabilities and other issues had been warehoused at Willowbrook, the largest of such facilities in the United States.
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