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Right On! Whitehawk is right. Also, this type of room was used for incoming patients being braught in many women were braught in for embarrassing thier families and crimes against the church ( CATHOLIC ). Thier crime was either having sex or getting pregnant out of wedlock. Most men were locked up for not knowing thier place i.e. blue collars dating rich or blacks dating whites. True criminalswere sent to Niantic Women's Prison and the men to Cheshire Penitentary. In both Niantic and Cheshire they had psychiatric wards. It is for the dangerously and criminally insane that are/were housed in Cheshire and have and occasionally still escape that have been the ongoing topic of town meetings for decades. NSH was never for the criminally insane. So. many of those being braught in by family entered the administration area. The marble was set up to convey both authority and assurance. While assuring them they were doing the right thing it made them feel they had no choice. To assure thier silence in the future they