Alan Graham
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that we're trying to get people out of the state mental hospitals that didn't need to be there and the vast majority of them didn't need to be there and re-acclimate them back into the community.
What we're seeing out on the streets right now are the small percentage of people
who probably need to be institutionalized or managed in a phenomenally different way than how we're managing them now.
You know, it's complicated, so I'm going to just kind of do a superficial.
In 1887, there's a map of the city of Austin.
It's an oblique map that goes from the Colorado River north through North Austin.
It's kind of a topographical map.
You can buy these maps today.
And on that map are three prominent features.
There's the University of Texas Tower.
And there's the insane asylum.
If you can zoom in on that.
Well, that building is still there.
It's at 45th and Guadalupe.
It's the Austin State Hospital.