Willowbrook litigation support files, 1972-1986.

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Willowbrook litigation support files, 1972-1986.

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The litigation support files consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, audit reports and related records concerning the class action litigation involving residents of the former Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, New York. The records document the litigation over conditions at the facility, the agency response to the litigation and its aftermath, oversight between 1975 and 1993 of agency actions affecting class members by a court-appointed Office of Special Master and Professional Advisory Board, and post-1993 monitoring by the agency of class members after their transfers to other facilities or community-based residences. Many of the records, especially those from the period when litigation was taking place, appear to have been collected from multiple sources within the agency (Commissioner's Office, Counsel's Office, etc.) in an attempt to create a central set of Willowbrook-related files.

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New York (State). Dept. of Mental Hygiene

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New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Litigation Support Services.

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The controversy over inhumane conditions and treatment of residents at the Willowbrook State School (aka Willowbrook Developmental Center), a residential facility for the developmentally disabled on Staten Island, brought national attention to the status and rights of the mentally retarded. The School opened in 1938 and, after serving as a military hospital during World War II, was used as a facility for the severely mentally retarded, including clients transferred from other state ...

Willowbrook State School

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