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That organ might be worth some money to someone.

Thank you for taking these pictures. My Mother Betty Royal went here sometime in the 30s. I still have the pictures she took while at Bennett, including a picture of what the old hall used to look like. Looking at the inside pictures made me feel a little closer to my mom because I was able to see into a part of her life. She died in 98.

Chuck V and Kim, I was there as a patient from the beginning at C51 at about 13. Then was transferred to Yorkwoods center til age 17. Late 70s. Still have nightmares.

This was a quiet room aka solitary confinement.

These fences look like they're from when it was a jail.

Thanks so much for posting these beautiful pics. I have often admired these buildings from the outside and it is so wonderful to be able to see the design details on the inside, both here at Western State and DeJarnette.

yeah deep shodows BAD MEMORIES FROM THE 50'S. By now from Wayne an x patient of that darn place.

Yeah shodows of horor of the past.

I'm pretty sure this is B Building entrance.

I think this was the entrence to A- Build admmid , Dr Youder office was on the right side as you enter the build.

Clean my but this is where the attendents would throw us in very warm water then dous us with ice water that would shock us. we would cry and cry and if did'nt stop when told to the attendents would hit us on the head hard with their keys, or thump us with their middle knukels on the head. Ohh how well I remember that !!!

I remember scrubing these tiles. This is where I learned to run a buffer.

This is a look at all you can see from inside the cell as kids we could not see out the windows we were to small.

This was a seclusion cell. You could be in there for a long time depending on what you did.

This is the way the attendents would take us kids for store privledges and lab tests as well as shock treatment rooms. They would always treaten us kids if we screwed up they would take us in those rooms and shock us.