A former prostitute tells all: liberally dosed with sex fantasies for the retarded.
A substantial part of the new money will go toward building housing for the retarded.
But financing-by-scandal ended for the retarded in 1975, when Gov. Hugh L. Carey signed the Willowbrook consent order.
Dan O'Connell, regional director of the State Department of Mental Retardation, said the artworks have brightened the state's new centers for the retarded.
Geraldo Rivera made his mark in the 1970's by investigating the horrid conditions at the Willowbrook state institution for the retarded on Staten Island.
Consequently, the court said, the death penalty for the retarded should now be seen as cruel and unusual punishment that violates the Eighth Amendment.
He was believed to be retarded, although he was of normal intelligence, and was confined in a state institution for the retarded.
While working at a state institution for the retarded in Massachusetts, he became convinced that many psychological problems stemmed from social settings and institutional cultures.
Her mother retired as the director of social services for Arc of Bergen-Passaic, an advocacy group for the retarded in Hackensack, N.J., and is now a consultant to the Child Center, a social service agency in Wayne, N.J.
I expected to be free, but God had his own plan," the 80-year-old nun told reporters at her Missionaries of Charity home for the retarded on the outskirts of Calcutta, India.
