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Gov. Newsom touts the $6.4-billion measure as a way to curb homelessness and mental health concerns. But the state's plan on how to do this isn't clear.

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Asylums often did not provide effective—never mind person-centered—treatment for mental health maladies. They were experimental laboratories and, in many cases, elaborate money making schemes.

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Dec. 20, 2012 -- It took filmmaker Lucy Winer several decades to come to terms with having been locked up in a mental institution in 1967 after several hospitalizations for suicide attempts.