An update on a court case we’ve been covering on this and related sites:
Several media organizations on Thursday joined a Nebraska historical society’s fight to obtain the names of 957 people buried in unmarked graves at a former psychiatric hospital cemetery.
The organizations filed a “friend of the court” brief supporting a lawsuit filed by the Adams County Historical Society in Hastings.
The bodies were buried in the institution’s cemetery between 1889 and 1957. Many of the people were committed to the institution without their consent for any number of health conditions or because of poverty.
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