Geraldo Rivera broke into news casting - and won a Peabody - due his reporting on neglect/abuse at the Willowbrook State a School on Staten Island. The video has a horror, flashlight-in-the-dark feel and people reacted strongly. I react strongly.

Robert Kennedy even spoke spoke out in public against the facility (his sister suffered a bad lobotomy requiring full time care). Many kinds of institutions closed in the 1970's, and for good reasons.