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Discussions by dietmen, officials of the Ministry of Welfare and directors of leprosariums and representatives of leprosy patients agreed on the necessity of a prison. Matsuki Miyazaki, the director of Kikuchi Keifuen Sanatorium wrote that it was decided to build a prison at Kikuchi by majority decision of directors. The Kikuchi Medical Prison ...
1938: Special prison "Juukanbou" Kusatsu Special Prison, was built within the sanatorium. 1941: St.Barnaba Hospital was closed. 44 patients were transferred to Kusatsu Rakusen-en. 1947: The cruel condition of the special prison was spotlighted. The director was suspended from office. April 1996: The 1953 Leprosy Prevention Law was abolished.
Kusatsu Special Prison was a prison that operated between 1938 and 1947, in Kuryu Rakusen-en Sanatorium in Kusatsu Onsen, Kusatsu town, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, where criminals from public leprosaria throughout Japan were imprisoned. Prisons for conventional crimes had been built earlier in all public leprosaria.
An exhibit at Thibodaux’s Jean Lafitte Museum shows how one man was both a patient and the chronicler of America’s first leprosy community. Thibodaux museum exhibits photos from Vacherie man ...
Leprosy has historically been associated with social stigma, which continues to be a barrier to self-reporting and early treatment. [4] Leprosy is classified as a neglected tropical disease. [21] World Leprosy Day was started in 1954 to draw awareness to those affected by leprosy. [22] [4] The study of leprosy and its treatment is known as ...
Forced Hospitalization at Honmyōji, also called the Honmyōji incident, was the forced hospitalization of leprosy patients living near Honmyō-ji Temple, in the western suburbs of Kumamoto, Japan on July 9, 1940. It is regarded as an incident related to the "No Leprosy Patients in Our Prefecture Movement".
A temporary program for “dangerously mentally ill” patients has continued for five decades. Soon, Idaho will be the only state still using prisons to house patients who face no criminal charges.
The two main reasons for the leprosy prevention law were that foreigners visiting Japan after the Meiji Restoration (1868) were very much surprised to find leprosy sufferers wandering at large and claimed that something should be done about it and the Japanese Government was worried about a large number of people with the condition among those ...