Sentence examples for institutionalized for years from inspiring English sources

He said he was concerned about the care being received by the former patients, many of whom had been institutionalized for years or even decades in New York psychiatric wards.

This film also turns on a terminally alone character, Roman Kogler (the touching newcomer Thomas Schubert), a 19-year-old inmate at a juvenile detention center and throwaway child who has been institutionalized for years for a crime revealed late in the story.

A Georgia woman who was institutionalized for 10 years searches for clues to her terrible past.

Doris Mount, who has been institutionalized for 30 years, proudly told relatives during a family reunion last week that she had voted by absentee ballot.

Judged unfit to stand trial (he had suffered from manic depression throughout his adult life), he was institutionalized for several years.

Anya was institutionalized for seven years — she took up life with Arlen again in New York in 1958 — and during that time Arlen stepped out with many glamorous women, Gloria Vanderbilt and Marlene Dietrich among them.

There are some pretty-boys-at-the-gym scenes, in a subplot involving a son who's moved to Los Angeles (the weakest part of the show), but the primary gay character — Brother Boy, a cross-dressing Tammy Wynette impersonator who's been institutionalized for 28 years because his parents wanted him "de-homosexualized" — is old and fleshy and tired.

Residents who have been institutionalized for several years are generally medically stable, might live longer, and are therefore healthier and need fewer drugs.

After a beating at the hands of the police at age twenty-one in 1945, Powell's behavior grew erratic; he was institutionalized for a year, was given shock treatment, and spent the rest of his life struggling with mental illness.

He cited "the architectural and art historical motifs" of places in the middle east, such as Punjab and Bengal, where cannabis had been institutionalized for thousands of years.

(Rooney) 'Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day' (previews start on Wednesday; opens on Sept. 18) Mabou Mines explores the tragic life of James Joyce's daughter, Lucia, whose artistic promise as a young woman in Paris was extinguished when her erratic behavior caused her to be institutionalized for the remaining 50 years of her life.