Frank Shatz talks to Dan Meyerhoff, who worked for decades in the New York prison system, including at Rikers Island.

Never in the history of Columbus was there such a conflagration as that at the Lunatic Asylum, of which we gave a hasty and necessary partial account yesterday, as all ?? of rumors were Bring ...

WESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — Over the years, the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum has garnered somewhat of a paranormal reputation, ...

North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum in Denbigh opened in 1848 to provide care for Welsh speaking people with mental illnesses. In reality, up to 1,500 patients, including children with learning ...

BODMIN MUSEUM. Once the mere whisper of Bodmin's lunatic asylum, St Lawrence's, was enough to put the fear of God into Cornish men and women. The dark dress is a poignant reminder of the uniform ...

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.

Included in this number were the residents of the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Dundrum, Co. Dublin. A total of 141 men and 21 women were held in that asylum, a decrease of six patients on the ...