STAUNTON - Dr. Joseph DeJarnette, head of Staunton's Western State Hospital for almost 40 years, has emerged as one of the more controversial and pilloried figures in recent Virginia history. Noted ...
Between the late 1700s and the 1970s, Virginia had a practice of institutionalizing handicapped populations that were inadequately served in Virginia localities. The commonwealth was an early state ...
The Staunton doctor who spent decades enforcing and cheering on one of the state’s ugliest public policy programs wasn’t seen as a monster by the civic leaders of his time. Dr. Joseph S. DeJarnette — ...
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