Winfield, Kansas Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Institutions==== The [[Winfield State Hospital and Training Center]], established in the community in the prior century to house and confine the [[mental illness|mentally ill]] and [[developmentally disabled]], remained as a dominant local employer throughout the 20th century, housing and confining those with mental problems from throughout the state of Kansas—housing up to 1,492 "patients" at its maximum in 1952.<ref name="wsh_ctnewsonline" /><ref name="council_calls" /> Towards the end of the century the (now designated "Winfield State Hospital and Training Center") housed [[developmentally disabled]] people. Changing social and political attitudes, and [[SCOTUS]] decisions, and conservative political economics (developmentally disabled persons supported in the community cost the state $25,000 annually, versus $130,000 for confinement in the Winfield facility), led to the gradual closing of most of the facility—over heated protests from residents' families and local community leaders. In 1998, the [[Kansas Legislature]] officially voted to close it. At that time, it was the oldest and largest of the three Kansas state hospitals for [[developmentally disabled]] persons. When the closure of the facility was announced in 1997, the patient population had declined to only 250 residents.<ref name="council_calls" /><ref name="disability" /><ref name="wsh_ctnewsonline" /> The facility was gradually taken over by the [[Kansas Department of Corrections]], and repurposed as the [[Winfield Correctional Facility]], expanded to contain up to 556 prisoners.<ref name="corrections"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page