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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

Dan Barry

Start date: June 6, 2016

Finish date: June 6, 2016

Why we're reading this: So sad you'll wish you could stop reading, but so well-written you won't be able to, Dan Barry's The Boys…more
[close] So sad you'll wish you could stop reading, but so well-written you won't be able to, Dan Barry's The Boys in the Bunkhouse exposes the exploitation and maltreatment of intellectually-disabled men denied their basic human rights for decades.

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Sep 17, 2020 Melanie rated it liked it

My mom had worked in a nursing home/training center for the mentally challenged. This is a subject near and dear to my heart. This book is very disturbing, but from what I am witnesses the change from making "institutions" vanish and more group living situations this is actually occurring more now than then. Maybe not the abuse of labor as told here, but they are not receiving help and training to help reach potential. My mom's facility received a lot less money per patient and provided, dietiti ...more

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