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

news
The stories I could tell....

Yet people currently protest the inhumane conditions and "torture" of
terrorists. If they were subjected to half that it would make global news!

CM



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

The one I was at in Indiana was privately owned.

Scotty


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

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

Scotty


"katysails" wrote in message

news
The stories I could tell....

Thayt all happened in the 1950's....nowadays psychiatric patients,
especially in the states of MI, WI and MN are highly protected by heavily
enforced Mental Health Codes...

"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
news:F%W_d.66386$i6.55658@edtnps90...
Yet people currently protest the inhumane conditions and "torture" of
terrorists. If they were subjected to half that it would make global news!

CM



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

The one I was at in Indiana was privately owned.

Scotty


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

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

Scotty


"katysails" wrote in message

news The stories I could tell....

katysails wrote:
...they made them take communal
showers and would dump patricide on them to keep the lice down...horrible...

I dunno, it's better than having to live in a close community infected
with lice...

DSK

It wasn't that they did it...it was the way they did it...my grandmother
referred to it as the "sheep dip" day...there was very little humanity to
the process...

"DSK" wrote in message
. ..
katysails wrote:
...they made them take communal
showers and would dump patricide on them to keep the lice
down...horrible...

I dunno, it's better than having to live in a close community infected
with lice...

DSK