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Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP)

The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) is Colorado’s original and largest public psychiatric institution. It has a long and complicated history of housing and rehabilitating adults and children living with mental illness, physical and…

Eugenics in Colorado

“Eugenics” refers to a social-engineering project based on the unsubstantiated idea that humanity can be improved by eliminating supposedly defective or lesser genes in favor of others. During the twentieth century, American medical professionals and…