institutionalization

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It is, in essence, an institutionalization of the heckler’s veto, in which a single parent — or any individual, really — can remove hundreds of books or shut down lessons on the basis of the political discomfort they feel.

From Seattle Times

Volkova, who has a disability herself, opposes the institutionalization and segregation of people with disabilities.

From Washington Post

To get away from institutionalization, the state moved gravely ill people out of hospitals.

From Seattle Times

The VA’s failure to provide supportive housing forces those veterans to “accept institutionalization or go without services,” it said.

From Los Angeles Times

“This is the first time the court has announced that needless institutionalization is a form of discrimination,” Ira Burnim, the legal director of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, a Washington nonprofit that coordinated briefs for the women’s Supreme Court case, said at the time.

From New York Times