A Special Hell
- Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers
- Institutional documentation
- And governmental archives
- Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of &
- Mentally defective&
- Children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta
- Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer
- One of the last such facilities operating in Canada
- A Special Hell is a sobering account of the connection between institutionalization and eugenics
- Malacrida explains how isolating the Michener Centre&
