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*It has been speculated that this school was was one of the schools shown in the expose book Christmas in Purgatory by Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan. Burton Blatt never publicly announced what the other four schools in the book were. He said that he would rather the pictures in the book be looked as current conditions in every state school instead of a select few in the North East.
 
*It has been speculated that this school was was one of the schools shown in the expose book Christmas in Purgatory by Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan. Burton Blatt never publicly announced what the other four schools in the book were. He said that he would rather the pictures in the book be looked as current conditions in every state school instead of a select few in the North East.
 
*[http://www.mncdd.org/extra/wbrook/willowbrook.html Click here to view a photographic essay on the school.]  
 
*[http://www.mncdd.org/extra/wbrook/willowbrook.html Click here to view a photographic essay on the school.]  
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Here is more of the video Geraldo Rivera did on the hospital on Youtube:
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Revision as of 09:53, 7 September 2010

Willowbrook State School
Construction Began 1938
Current Status Closed
Building Style Cottage Plan
Alternate Names
  • Halloran General Hospital
  • Staten Island Developmental Center



  • From 1956 to 1971 residents at Willowbrook were infected with live hepatitis to develop a vaccine. Some parents gave consent only because it would allow their child acceptance into the overcrowded facility.
  • In 1972 Geraldo Rivera hosted an expose on the school and the living conditions there titled Willowbrook: The Last Disgrace. To view a portion of the expose Click the link at the bottom of this web page.
  • It has been speculated that this school was was one of the schools shown in the expose book Christmas in Purgatory by Burton Blatt and Fred Kaplan. Burton Blatt never publicly announced what the other four schools in the book were. He said that he would rather the pictures in the book be looked as current conditions in every state school instead of a select few in the North East.
  • Click here to view a photographic essay on the school.

Here is more of the video Geraldo Rivera did on the hospital on Youtube:

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