Psychiatric Facilities

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Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Weitz, Don; Diemer, Ulli
Article
2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
Slave Wages Paid To Working Psychiatric Patients
Article
1981
This article claims that the mentally ill are working for as little as fifty cents an hour in sheltered workshops, provincial psychiatric hospitals and some private businesses in the Toronto area.
Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
Cockburn, Patrick
Unclassified
2017
The criminalisation of the mentally ill is one of the cruellest and most easily avoidable tragedies of our era.

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Not at liberty
Jails (and gaols), Central Prison, the Mercer Reformatory, and the Asylum
Bebout, Rick
2002
A history of prisons, reformatories, asylums and mental health facilities in Toronto and their relationship with the populace, detailing and criticizing the implications of attitudes and approaches to...