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they were shut down they just changed the way they could hold people. Before if you ended up in one lest say you took a bit too much acid one day you might end up there forever but not from your own derangement they would drug you by force then send you before the board and bam you are unpersoned and they use you to bill the government for the rest of your life. Reagan changed this so you had to clearly demonstrate within a ten day observation you had an abiding psychotic disorder which rendered you unable to conduct yourself and only then could they keep you.

Reagan wanted unruly behavioral cases sent to correctional institutions and jails which did not burden the Federal medicaid system.

Was good and bad like anything as now the institutions had their gravy train derailed anyone who got too close would end up being dragged in literally Shanghaied for at least that 10 day observation payday then kick you loose with SSI if you somehow managed to figure it out and get yourself free.