Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a group of ...

The Eloise Asylum in Westland was once a poorhouse, a psychiatric facility and a general hospital that housed thousands of patients. At its peak, Eloise was a self-sufficient community spanning 900 ...

"Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in ...

“The stigma and fear of mental illness began to go hand in hand with the stigma and fear of the institution.” Such narratives included books such as the 1868 “ The prisoners’ hidden life; or, Insane ...