Institutions

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Juvenile & Youth Facilities

Examples: reform schools, youth detention centers, residential treatment centers, “troubled teen” programs, and boot camps.

Abuse patterns: physical and sexual abuse, excessive restraints or solitary confinement, forced labor, psychological coercion.

Psychiatric Hospitals & Mental Institutions

Examples: state hospitals, “asylums,” private psychiatric facilities.

Abuse patterns: involuntary confinement, experimental treatments without consent (lobotomies, electroshock), neglect, sexual abuse, and overmedication.

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Institutions for People with Disabilities

Examples: “schools” or “training centers” for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Abuse patterns: physical abuse, medical neglect, sterilization, lack of consent, and deaths from neglect.

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Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities

Examples: elder care homes, memory care units, and for-profit residential facilities.

Abuse patterns: physical and sexual abuse, neglect, medication misuse, and financial exploitation.

Particularly vulnerable: people with dementia, developmental disabilities, or limited family oversight

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Boarding Schools & Religious Residential Institutions

Examples: parochial schools, boarding schools for Indigenous or orphaned children.

Abuse patterns: physical punishment, sexual abuse, forced assimilation, cultural erasure.

Prisons, Jails, and Immigration Detention

Examples: county jails, state/federal prisons, ICE detention centers, private prisons.

Abuse patterns: sexual violence, medical neglect, excessive use of solitary confinement, labor exploitation.

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Foster Care & Child Welfare Institutions

Examples: orphanages, group homes, foster placements.

Abuse patterns: sexual and physical abuse, neglect, overuse of psychotropic drugs, lack of oversight

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