Public awareness continued to play a key role in initiating change. Reporting for the Minneapolis Tribune, Sam Newlund wrote exposés of institutional conditions on January 10, 1965 and April 16, 1967.
Conditions were deplorable, he reported. Children became teens and then adults, all while their disheartening circumstances remained the same.
Video: Sam Newlund, Star Tribune reporter, who covered state social service activities and with photographer Earl Sieffert did an impactful story on hospital conditions.
Part 1: Unannounced Visit and the Exposé of Faribault State Hospital
Part 2: Comparing Kansas and Minnesota Conditions
Part 3: A Reporter’s First Hand Account
Conditions were deplorable,
according to a Minneapolis Tribune exposé.
STAR TRIBUNE/MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL 2009.