A Procession of Them [With DVD]

by Eugene Richards

In some countries, they call them the "abandonados," the abandoned ones. They're the impoverished mentally ill and mentally disabled patients being warehoused in psychiatric asylums that are more run-down, more uncaring than the most brutal American prisons. Confined in cage-like cells, tied to beds soiled with human waste, medicated to the point of senselessness, or wandering naked in unheated and garage-like wards, they live in what can only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292719108
• ISBN13: 9780292719101
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 8.7"