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Abbott stood trial in August 1867 and was committed to Taunton State Hospital, a lunatic asylum in Massachusetts. After that, little is known, and details surrounding the case remain mysterious.

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny ...

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As long as the IP is used, we'd quantify this as part of a 'series'. Edna wakes up in the padded cell of an insane asylum with no memory of her past or how she ended up there. Only one thing is for ...

Bly would pose as an insane woman and allow herself to be committed to Blackwell's Island -- New York City's notorious asylum. What resulted was a searing exposé that got the attention of ...

Psychiatry was an infant science" In a Somerset town a small group of volunteers are slowly and sensitively revealing the stories of those who lived at the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

He claimed migrants and asylum seekers were “coming from prisons. They’re coming from jails. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums.” He repeated this claim at the ...

Any audience members who didn’t hate Wetmore before he made a living person burst into flames will loathe him after and cheer for his landing in an insane asylum. Image Credit: Warner Bros.

“Millions of people [are] pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums,” he insisted in the opening minutes of Tuesday's debate. According to ...

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