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Eugene Richards: A Procession of Them - The Plight of the Mentally Disabled
Few human beings are subject to as much misunderstanding, cruelty, and neglect as the world's mentally disabled.
Those who have been classified mentally ill or mentally retarded are too often abandoned or hidden away in psychiatric institutions, which are grossly overcrowded and unsanitary, and which offer little or nothing in the way of medical care or training.
The mentally retarded are housed with the mentally ill, children with adults, those who are suffering physical illnesses with those who are not. Abuses such as beatings and rapes go unreported or unchecked.
In some countries the homeless, the elderly who lack families, epileptics, and petty criminals are also placed into asylums, because they have nowhere else to go.
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