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Aerial view of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital campus, 1922. The Pennhurst campus in 1922. Assembly Hall, Penn Hall and Devon Hall had not been built yet. And Commonwealth Drive apparently ended at Mayflower Hall.
Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was a state-run institution for mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania located in Spring City. [4] After 79 years of controversy, it closed on December 9, 1987. [5]
Pennhurst station was a former train station in the borough of Spring City, Pennsylvania. It served as a station for the Pennsylvania Railroad . It was originally built to accommodate the Pennhurst State School and Hospital .
Johnson was born 14 September 1945. [1] He was the youngest of nine children – six girls and three boys. He was born a twin but his twin sibling died in infancy. [2] The Johnson family lived in a three-bedroom house, first on Ellsworth Street across from the Christian Union Church in South Philadelphia, then later on North Cleveland Street in North Philadelphia.
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The defendants, who were management personnel at Pennhurst State School, an old state facility to which Romeo's mother had him committed when she could no longer care for him, did not dispute Romeo's right to care, habilitation, training and security. The critical issue in the case was the standard of care and whether the defendants had ...
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Text of Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman, 465 U.S. 89 (1984) is available from: CourtListener Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio) Suffer The Little Children, a 1968 exposé on Pennhurst State School by NBC10 reporter Bill Baldini.