Soon after the world learned of the atrocities that occurred inside Willowbrook State School, widespread public outrage prompted the New York Civil Liberties Union to file a class-action lawsuit ...

There is nothing more impactful – or heartbreaking – than reading the original Staten Island Advance reporting, which first brought average Staten Islanders inside the institution. We are ...

Willowbrook State School’s first decade of operation dealt ... WABC-TV’s Geraldo Rivera conducted an investigation inside Willowbrook to determine living conditions and the extent of abuse ...

Willowbrook State School only took in 20 patients from other ... Along with a camera crew, he filmed the gruesome inside of Willowbrook and aired the footage as part of a special on WABC-TV ...

An idyllic-looking postcard from the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island ... and parents were not allowed inside much of the facilities apart from the official room where they would visit ...

Staten Island Advance/Tony Caran In the 1970s, young reporter Geraldo Rivera, looking to make his bones as an investigative journalist, took cameras inside the Willowbrook State School on Staten ...

In 1972, ABC aired an exposé on the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island ... reporter named Geraldo Rivera took a camera crew inside the institution, and gave the country a firsthand ...

Willowbrook State School. That facility closed in the late 1980's after a series of tv reports exposed gruesome conditions inside where children with disabilities were living. “How horrifying ...

You have no idea what was inside. No idea ... who was placed in Willowbrook State School at, at the age of five. That's how families tried to monitor the care because we weren't allowed to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– More than fifty years ago, the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island was exposed for its horrific treatment of those with developmental disabilities by investigative ...