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Reburials planned for former mental health patients in Tuscaloosa
Original: Reburials for former mental health patients in Tuscaloosa
Efforts are underway in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to give proper reburials to former mental health patients who were historically buried in unmarked or neglected graves. Local coverage highlights the dignity being restored to people who died in state institutional care and were never given marked resting places. The story reflects a broader reckoning with how psychiatric institutions historically treated patients after death.
Why now: Communities and officials are addressing the historical mistreatment and unmarked graves of institutionalized mental health patients.
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