Willowbrook State School was an overcrowded “snake pit“, as Senator Kennedy called it, with not enough staff to take care of thousands of developmentally/intellectually disabled children. An institution of filth, disease, heartbreak, and abuse. In this episode, we’ll go behind the doors of this disgrace of a facility and discover what was really happening to these children when they thought no one was looking.


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https://youtu.be/bpVEjzO6Dd0 - First Geraldo report in 1972.

https://youtu.be/HNLyKW8fCNg - Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook

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