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Survey of service users across 43 state psychiatric hospitals, 24 states shows 36.25% of people had lived within the confines of these facilities for one year or more.
Survey of service users across 43 state psychiatric hospitals, 24 states shows 36.25% of people had lived within the confines of these facilities for one year or more.
Median duration of stay was 6 years; 1 in 10 had lived within these psychiatric facilities for 25 years or more, including one person who had spent all of 62 years of her life inside an institution.
Over three-quarters were living in closed wards – that is locked spaces with no time outdoors; at the time of survey 47 participants were living in solitary confinement in cells.
