Indiana Disability History

Title

Neglect in the Institutions

Subject

Institutions

Muscatatuck State Developmental Center

Description

"You cannot walk onto a unit and see visible injuries on 12 of 14 people that weren't there the week before and not suspect something is terribly wrong there." Two officials share observations about the treatment of residents at Muscatatuck State Developmental Center in the years before it closed and the circumstances that led to the closure. Sue Beecher was assigned by Indiana's Protection and Advocacy Commission as the advocate for Muscatatuck. Sue Gant worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation and was investigating conditions there. Eventually, she assisted with the closure. "It became quite clear that institutionalization, segregation of people with disabilities, was discriminatory."

Creator

Indiana Disability History Project

Publisher

Center for Health Equity at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

Contributor

Sue Beecher - interviewee

Sue Gant - interviewee

Jennie Todd - interviewer

Peggy Holtz - videographer/editor

Rights

Relation

007-mi

007-do

111-mi-01

Format

video/mp4

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

179-mi

Access Rights

Open to all users

Bibliographic Citation

"Neglect in the Institution" YouTube video, 00:03:40, interview excerpt 07-mi and 111-mi, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on September 2, 2021, https://youtu.be/kjhZf4M9uAs

Spatial Coverage

Indiana, Jennings County, Butlerville

Temporal Coverage

1998-2005