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==History==
 
Despite the awards given Moose Lake State Hospital in 1949 for being restraint free, staff at that hospital placed residents with mental retardation in restraint chairs from the 1970s until the institution was closed in the 1990s. The facility was then turned over to the state prison system and it remains a medium security prison today.
 
Despite the awards given Moose Lake State Hospital in 1949 for being restraint free, staff at that hospital placed residents with mental retardation in restraint chairs from the 1970s until the institution was closed in the 1990s. The facility was then turned over to the state prison system and it remains a medium security prison today.
  

Revision as of 10:14, 1 June 2010

Moose Lake State Hospital
Moose Lake State Hospital
Construction Began 1935
Current Status Active
Building Style Rambling Plan
Alternate Names
  • Fourth State Hospital for the Insane
  • Minnesota Correctional Facility/Moose Lake(current)



History

Despite the awards given Moose Lake State Hospital in 1949 for being restraint free, staff at that hospital placed residents with mental retardation in restraint chairs from the 1970s until the institution was closed in the 1990s. The facility was then turned over to the state prison system and it remains a medium security prison today.

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