Willowbrook State School: 30 years later (video)
- Tamsen Fadal for Pix11 October 6th, 2017
- Source: http://pix11.com/2017/10/06/willowbrook-state-school-30-years-later/
Interview with NYU Tandon Professor of Technology, Culture and Society Allan Goldstein, member of the NYU Ability Project, and senior lecturer of the Disability Studies class at Tandon, interviewed about his brother’s experience at the institution. Go to 02:57 of segment 1 and 01:07 of segment 2
… Thousands of young people with developmental disabilities were kept locked away for decades, living in a state-funded hell -- and it happened right here in New York, at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island.