Demolition.

The Mental Health Complex will soon be a memory. I will never forget.

[ID: Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex being demolished, with a pile of rubble outside. Photo credit: Kelly Waterman.]

The Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex was the site of Mama’s two dozen plus psychiatric incarcerations. I have visited it three times in my life. Once, in 2001, when I went to retrieve her entire psychiatric record, five years …