When Howard Norton’s series on “Maryland’s Shame” debuted, the entire state reacted in disgust. The governor received several hundred letters and telegrams that ranged from outrage to profound sadness. Residents wrote to the paper and demanded that the legislature take action. Just one week after the series came out, lawmakers formed a special joint committee to investigate all of the state’s mental institutions. By February of the same year, then-governor William Preston Lane announced a $20 million capital improvement plan for the state hospitals, with space at Crownsville doubled.
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