Willowbrook State School

…Um called the Willowbrook State School.…

…In the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, children at the Willowbrook State School in New York, a facility for children with intellectual disabilities that was, by most contemporary accounts, catastrophically overcrowded and understaffed, were intentionally infected with hepatitis as part of a research programme.…

…Dr. Krugman, as it turned out, went on to receive the prestigious Albert Lasker Public Service Award and became president of the American Pediatric Society. The terrible irony of Willowbrook State School is that it was built to protect the most vulnerable members of society. However, instead, its brick walls trapped them inside, subjecting them to new, unth…