institutionalization

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MOCA’s permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art’s full-scale institutionalization.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

The third piece of the Cicero platform is to expand civil commitment laws, which permit the involuntary hospitalization or institutionalization of people with mental illnesses.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025

I would support any effort toward stronger institutionalization of services — health services, mental health care, job training, post-incarceration care — separate from the criminal justice system.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

Her uncle took the secret of his mother’s institutionalization to his grave, Arnold said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Legal rulings empowered people with developmental disabilities to refuse treatment and created rights for the mentally disabled that made forced institutionalization much less common.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson