Still, the school remained open. NY State Court More room in prison During the College of Staten Island’s 21st annual Willowbrook memorial lecture in 2014, Diane Buglioli, a former Willowbrook ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The terrible Willowbrook State School, the 1970s poster child for inhumane treatment of handicapped citizens, does not haunt the College of Staten Island's Willowbrook ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) –More than 50 years ago, the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island was exposed for its horrific treatment of those with developmental disabilities. The documentary ...