Change ahead for Oklahoma's mentally disabled

 
BY SONYA COLBERG scolberg@opubco.com
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.

Louis Bullock spoke at a December meeting in which Oklahoma Department of Human Services commissioners reviewed DHS plans to reduce the two state-run centers' resident population from 242 to 112. Bull...


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