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Neidorf, Jon, Ed. – Institute on Community Integration, 2023
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are overrepresented in the criminal legal system. Further, many people with IDD move between large state-run institutions and the criminal legal system. In 2019, for example, 29% of people moving into large state-run institutions came from jails, prisons, and other correctional…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation, Institutionalized Persons
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Zirpoli, Thomas J.; Wieck, Colleen – Journal of Special Education, 1989
The economic and political factors maintaining the large numbers of residents with developmental disabilities in public institutions are reviewed from the perspective of Minnesota. Alternatives are presented to lessen the economical and political impact of institutional closures, in order to advance the process of deinstitutionalization.…
Descriptors: Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities, Economic Factors, Institutionalized Persons