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In 1908 in the woods of Exeter RI a small facility opened for the supposed purpose of training mentally challenged men in a variety of trades There was room for eight inmates In just a few years the facility began accepting women and children deemed to be feeble minded Eventually a thousand individuals were crammed into metal beds thrashing naked on the floor forced to eat rotten food and drink out of toilets Medical procedures were performed without anesthesia and the dying were left to suffer It was all part of an American plan a plan that impressed the likes of eugenicist Adolf Hitler It was Rhode Island s own experiment in cleansing the state of inferior DNA See photos of those buried on the grounds and read their biographies as well as the stories of others who died at the overcrowded and inhumane compound Rhode Island s school for the feeble minded LADD SCHOOL u0026 THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT IN RHODE ISLAND
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