Medfield State Hospital, built in the 1880s and closed more than 20 years ago, is a little creepy but also pleasantly calm as one walks around the abandoned campus.

Six Reasons for Asylum Admission" art exhibit in the Baber Room Gallery in the Central Michigan University Library, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. The exhibit follows why women were commonly admitted into ...

mental institutions and “insane asylums” to send dangerous people to the US. The reality is often far more prosaic. Many immigrants living here illegally are working. They’re fixing roofs ...

mental institutions and “insane asylums” to send dangerous people to the U.S. The reality is often far more prosaic. Many immigrants living here illegally areworking. They're fixing roofs and cars, ...

mental institutions and “insane asylums” to send dangerous people to the U.S. The reality is often far more prosaic. Many immigrants living here illegally are working. They're fixing roofs and ...

In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed ...

The weekly rates in the late 1800s and early 1900s started ... things of that nature. The mental institution, the insane asylum, was more where people from outside of town would tuck their folks ...

From the early 1800s through the 1960s, federal policy supported the ... During the same time period, the Department of the Interior also operated or paid for 1,000 sanitariums, insane asylums, ...

In a statement, Sorrenti and Greenwood said: “Angels In the Asylum is a story of an extreme injustice in the 1930s where numerous women were locked away in a mental asylum, one we feel extremely ...