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2 hospital inmates left to own devices, meet their demise
Within the written Public Laws of Rhode Island, in its “Act for the Restraint and Care of the Insane,” those residents hospitalized with mental illness are referred to as “lunatics” and “mad persons.” Restrained at institutions allegedly for their own …