This essay is adapted from Fighting For Recovery: An Activists’ History of Mental Health Reform by Phyllis Vine. Others went from a hospital’s backward to “dingy welfare hotels and boarding houses.” She excoriated Presidents Nixon and Ford for their respective cuts to the National Institute of Mental Health. “It made a great impression on the whole commission.” Tactfully, she brushed …
A new hope for a historical hospital Heather Hacker/Alamy A new hope for a historical hospital This half-abandoned US asylum was once one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the world. Just a few miles from Milledgeville's historical downtown, the hulking, half-abandoned remains of the Central State Hospital serve as a grim reminder that this out-of-the-way outpost once housed one …
A small liberal arts college in rural Georgia has seen a COVID surge in the last two weeks that has made it one of the nation's leading hotspots. In response, campus workers at Georgia College in Milledgeville, part of the University System of Georgia, are holding an on-campus "die-in" Friday to protest what employees see as the school's "willful negligence" …
