The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation by Sarah Wise
The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation

Sarah Wise

The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation

Sarah Wise

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By 1950, an estimated 50,000 people had been deemed ‘defective’ by the British government and detained indefinitely under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. Their ‘crimes’ were various: women with children born out of wedlock; rebellious teenagers ca...

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