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TIL about a documentary called Titicut Follies, directed by Frederick Wiseman. The documentary took a look at the conditions inside Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts. In 1967, a judge issued an injunction that prohibited the film from being shown to the public.

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