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But back to the Frontline Audio Cast, here is the audio cast of Right to Fail, broadcast February 26th on PBS.

Tonight, it was a landmark ruling. Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illness had a right to live on their own.

There was a huge question about whether people that had been institutionalized can live successfully in the community.

And the Right to Fail.

It's just brought me there and said, today, this is your apartment.

Crutline and ProPublica examined the challenges and the risks.

My brother had just found totally naked.

What's he taking his medication? What's he not taking his medication? What was going on prior to that?

I mean, these are not 24-hour supervised settings, nor are they intended to be.

Tonight, on Frontline.

The question is, when do you take away somebody's liberty?

Right to Fail.

This is a story that is set in New York City, miles away from the tall buildings and high-rent neighborhoods of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

It's about people with serious mental illness and who decides where they live.

Here on the outskirts of the city, the state has long housed poor, psychiatrically disabled people in places infamous for bad care. They're called adult homes.

Janice Greenley.

And the Del Home, there were people who were not getting the proper care, drugs and alcohol.

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