Litigating the Right to Treatment Wyatt v. Stickney
Abstract
The author says that right-to-treatment litigation is a potent new tool for attacking the system by which mentally impaired people are indefinitely confined to institutions against their will. He discusses the objectives of cases such as Wyatt v. Stickney and the impact of the decision and its implementation.
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