My grandmother and aunt did volunteer work as Grey Ladies for the Red Cross
at the State Psych hospital in Ypsi when I was a kid...I can remember them
coming home crying for their "ladies" They would go around to local
merchants asking for donations of cosmetics and toiletries and whatever else
they could get because those women had nothing..they made them take communal
showers and would dump patricide on them to keep the lice down...horrible...

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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Oh, been to those too. The old one in St. Louis. VERY bad reputation.
Old guys there remember the torture and beatings and such.

SV


"katysails" wrote in message
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Well, we have a state hospital for the criminally insane...they are
inmates,
not patients...it is not a nice place...

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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Inmate? State Hospitals have patients, not inmates.

The one I was at in Indiana was privately owned.

Scotty


"katysails" wrote in message
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We're privately owned...BTW...
Were you an inmate?

"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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I've been to more than a few 'State Hospitals'. oh, the stories
I've
heard!

Scotty


"katysails" wrote in message

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The stories I could tell....