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This is an amazingly expressive photo. It's like a still from an old-time suspense movie. I love it!

Blacksheep Marcia can defend this place all she wants but a person doesn't have to have been there to see the wretched conditions in this place.I've seen photos used in the trial on a big site devoted just to Pennhurst and photos do not lie.I am not condemning all the staff that worked at Pennhurst,I am sure some were good people that genuinely cared for the welfare of the patients but I have no doubt that some were brutal sadists.I read an account written by a patient who stayed in Pennhurst for years about the horrors of that place.Why would this person make something like that up?

I can just imagine the children at "play"here.Sitting against the wall catatonic and rocking back and forth or playing with the roaches that scampered about this place because they knew no better.

I always love your photos of old medical equipment. Makes me wonder what happens to everything when places get demolished. There should be a museum for it or something.

Infrared look soo nice

Well I don't see that exactly but they are still creepy thinking of what they were used for.

I can't imagine any parent putting their child in a place like this no matter what mental disabillities or handicaps they have.I mean if I were like that I would rather be simply put out of my misery than have to live in a place like that!

Reminds me of that old ghost story about the gown that would kill anyone who put it on.I don't remember all the details but this picture makes me think of it.

I wonder what year those bikes are from?Looks like something from the sixties or seventies to me.

Is this to another seclusion room or something entirely different?

It seems like they almost beckon people to climb them even though the space beyond looks like something your nightmares would reside in.

Another very creepy door.If they had a contest for place with most creepy doors and windows this one would get it hands down.

I like the power lines.The veins of modern society flowing past something decayed,old,and frightening.Great contrast.

Seeing these adult cribs and thinking of people strapped in them for weeks and ever months possibly is disturbing enough but that sheet just adds to this.

Madman is right.I've seen cages like this put around tree sapplings as so no one will disturb them or damage them,I have an old one laying around in my shed actually.Not quite as big as that one and more modern and painted in sort of a cheery grass green but the same principal.