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Locked up: Woman held in mental health facility for 45 years

Author
BBC Radio 4
Published
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Episode Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028jmh

File on 4 Investigates tells the story of Kasibba – a woman locked up as a schoolgirl in a mental health hospital. She languished there for 45 years - despite not being mentally ill. She was finally freed two years ago after the intervention of a rookie psychologist. Reporter Carolyn Atkinson asks why so many autistic people and/or those with a learning disability, including children, are still locked up and why successive governments have failed to meet their promises to move people from hospital to home.

Reporter: Carolyn Atkinson
Producer: Ben Robinson
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards
Production Coordinator: Tim Fernley
Editor: Carl Johnston

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