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Alaska’s “Siberia bill” scare
Campaign claimed the Act would allow mass psychiatric detention of political enemies
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Account 1
United States national and state register · Batch 2
- Jurisdiction / date
- Alaska, 1956
- People / institutions
- Congress; Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act; opponents alleging a "Siberia" plan
- Mechanism
- Legislation
- Allegation or event
- Campaign claimed the Act would allow mass psychiatric detention of political enemies
- Finding or outcome
- Act passed; the panic is itself evidence of public fear of psychiatric detention as a political tool
- Label
- LEAD
Account 2
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 3
- Jurisdiction / date
- Alaska / Congress, 1956
- Mechanism
- Legislation (P.L. 84-830)
- What is documented
- Opponents' "Siberia bill" campaign alleged a plan for political detention; the panic shows public fear of psychiatric detention as a tool a decade before LPS
- Finding or status
- Standard account
- Limits
- Not opened this batch
- Label
- SUPPORTED
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1956-US-AK-ENABLING-ACT