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Article: NEED FOR STATE CENTERS SPURS DEBATE PEOPLE DISAGREE ABOUT PUTTING DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PEOPLE IN STATE INSTITUTIONS.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- March 12, 2003
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Byline: Brenda Ingersoll Wisconsin State Journal
No one - no one at all - should have to live in an institution, a developmentally disabled woman said Tuesday.
"My dream is to close the three institutions (for the developmentally disabled) in Wisconsin and let people live freely in the community," Cynthia Bentley, 45, said. "They should be able to eat what they want and get up when they want. People with disabilities should not be put in places just to give people jobs. People need to be free. Even if they can't talk, they do have feelings."
Bentley, born with fetal alcohol syndrome, lived at the Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally ...