I unearthed the latest development for the Forest Haven Project during my time as a recipient of the Fleur + Charles Bresler Residency award through VisArts in Rockville, Maryland. This four-month period of reexamining my research revealed the way in which Forest Haven is not an isolated incident, but rather an archetypal example occurring throughout United States history. Patterns of omission and oppression created by federal institutions through faulty record-keeping and deliberate information blocking are scribbled across the pages of time, particularly with regard to marginalized communities. Therefore, I intend for this project to serve as a clarion call within the modern age against similar acts of documentation suppression, information blocking, and racial marginalizing. Institutionalization is the story of racism, sexism, ableism and how society has dealt with cloistering its larger problems. In later studies, I plan to examine the narratives of individuals who were wrongfully held including orphans, runaway women, and immigrants who did not communicate in English. Exhibiting this work is an effort to recognize what has occurred historically to draw parallels between that which continues to happen today with marginalized communities in contemporary American society and the current political climate.