Institutionalization Archives - Disabled Journalists Association

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How private equity is gobbling up disability services

Private equity companies have gobbled up group homes and other services for people with disabilities, attracting the attention of...

By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline

June 15, 2026

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Trump nixes special education agency, lays off staff amid shutdown

Aaron Kittredge via Pexels Donald Trump’s onslaught of cuts to federal services is now being directed at...

By John Loeppky

October 13, 2025

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A newspaper clipping of a headline stating that Joseph Clifton Smith was sentenced to the death penalty in connection with a 1997 murder. The article includes a photo of Smith from the time.

Alabama wants to execute a man with intellectual disabilities. That’s unconstitutional, legal advocates say

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Hamm v. Joseph Clifton Smith. Smith,...

By R.L. Nave

October 8, 2025

Eugenics

PART I: Diabolical Plans

It was early 1939 — before World War II, before Adolf Hitler’s crimes against humanity were infamous — when a desperate man wrote a letter. The letter writer, ardent Nazi supporter Richard Kretschmar, had already tried and failed to convince a local doctor in Leipzig, Germany, to carry out what he wanted done.

By Lygia Navarro

June 18, 2025