Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights Charles Lockhart and Muddy Waters

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Pennhurst and the Struggle for Disability Rights Charles Lockhart and Muddy WatersConceived in the era of eugenics as a solution to what was termed the problem of the feeble minded, state operated institutions subjected people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to a life of compulsory incarceration. One of nearly 300 such facilities in the United States, Pennhurst State School and Hospital was initially hailed as a model institution but was later revealed to be a nightmare, where medical experimentation and physical