My mom worked at a large institution called Michener Centre, basically a total institution for the "mental defectives". There were many mentally handicapped people and many mentally ill people living there, basically as inmates. There was tons of abuse against the clients from the staff. A lot of the clients had been raised there, dropped off as young children or infants and forgotten about. My aunt was a client there, she was sterilized at 16. Many of the clients were not even "mental defectives" as they put it, just unwanted children.

It has been closed for many years, however, when it closed the clients were given minimal disability income and basically on the streets to fend for them selves. Heartbreaking and happened a lot.

They actually did call the clients "inmates", back in the day, then they changed it to "trainees", then "students", and finally "clients", at this particular institution.