Change ahead for Oklahoma’s mentally disabled

Lives could be at risk if Oklahoma’s movement toward closing its last two remaining institutions for the mentally disabled is poorly executed, warn family members and the man behind the landmark class action lawsuit that shut down Hissom Memorial Center.

 
BY SONYA COLBERG    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: January 22, 2012

Some of Oklahoma’s most fragile mentally disabled people could die as Oklahoma moves toward closing state centers for the mentally disabled, warned an attorney who helped dismantle the state’s first institution.

photo - A resident waits with other residents to be taken into the dining room for lunch at Northern Oklahoma  Resource Center in Enid. PHOTO BY BRYAN TERRY, THE OKLAHOMAN
A resident waits with other residents to be taken into the dining room for lunch at Northern Oklahoma Resource Center in Enid. PHOTO BY BRYAN TERRY, THE OKLAHOMAN

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