Proposed cuts to Medicaid could have a devastating impact on the intellectually and developmentally disabled community, ...

award-winning journalist whose reporting helped lead to the closure of Willowbrook State School, speaks at the College of Staten Island on May 2. He is pictured with advocate Bernard Carabello.

These are just a few of the atrocities behind the furtive walls of the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island from the early 1950s until the late 1970s. Hepatitis was injected into patients and ...

An idyllic-looking postcard from the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island. Image from the New York Public Library via Wikimedia Commons It was Rivera’s report that forced the public to ...

The former Willowbrook State School on Staten Island was once synonymous with patient abuse. The last patient moved out 40 years ago this year, and to mark that milestone, we're taking a look back ...

Migdalia and thousands like her had grown up in the Willowbrook State School, a notorious institution on Staten Island. For decades, the state used the facility as a warehouse for children and ...

the 18 years he spent as a child and young adult at the infamous Willowbrook State School, a now-defunct Staten Island institution for people with disabilities that gained notoriety for its ...

WILLOWBROOK, Staten Island (WABC) -- The new Willowbrook Mile ... the world got a glimpse inside the walls of an institution that was called a school. It was anything but that.