An eerie peek inside an abandoned insane asylum By . Chris Perez. Published July 1, 2014, 10: ... Old wheelchairs and rusty hospital beds now occupy once-filled rooms, as patient records lie ...

A look at Bryce Hospital, Alabama's historic insane asylum, then and now. Published: Jun. 24, 2016, 12:30 p.m. By . ... Patient rooms in Ward 1 of the west wing on June 17, 2016.

As this book reveals, patients in asylums didn't just sit in padded rooms. They also ran their own farms and baked their own bread. ... But as he wanders from room to room, ...

In the 19th century, the mentally ill were often sent to horrific asylums. Today they fill the nation's jails; the conditions aren't much better. Last year, almost 1.1 million people with serious ...

Abby Hamm was not concerned with the moaning and sickly insane asylum patients who begged for freedom, nor the doctor who appeared to be chopping intestines for a cannibalistic stew.

Guests can stay overnight in former patients' rooms at this late 19th-century building constructed as a mental hospital, which New York studio Deborah Berke Partners has partially restored and ...

OUT OF AN INSANE ASYLUM.; A RELEASED PATIENT'S REMARKABLE STORY OF CRUEL TREATMENT. Share full article. ... He was sent by his family to the Dixmont Insane Asylum, at Pittsburg.

ESCAPING THREE TIMES.; THE EXPERIENCE OF A PATIENT IN THE WARD'S ISLAND INSANE ASYLUM. Share full article. Nov. 28, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives.