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Graham, it's the result of deinstitutionalization, a well-meaning but ultimately ineffective policy begun in the 1960s (though it really kicked into high gear in the 1980s) aimed at alleviating overcrowding and eliminating the need for long-term hospital stays. The ostensible goal was to transfer the care of the chronically mentally ill to communities, allowing people to live their lives outside the confines of an institution, but the net result was a huge increase in the homeless and prison populations because most communities lacked the resources (or the compassion) to adequately care for these people. The only real beneficiary of this policy was the state, which was no long obligated to provide funding for the treatment of the mentally ill. It happened in both the USA and the UK and it's a terrible shame. Many of the people had been in hospitals their entire lives and were completely unable to cope with life on the outside. Phil Collins's song "Take Me Home" is about this very subject.

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live near in the cemetery you can feel the pain of the suffered patients. Every tombstone has numbers not names to label the people.

Looks like rat, mouse,and bird poop

Michele L.V your pics gave me insomnia

I'll climb the ladder

RKO watch this on NBC10 News.com and see what it used to look like in 1968

Hey researcher go to NBC10.com and search this. There's a news story on this that aired on TV 2 weeks ago. Check it out!

The video on the intro page was shown on NBC10 news.

If this place got weeds in it, how did that girl and her mom get through the place to get the story for NBC10?

I saw Bill Baldini on TV on April 27, 2010 on NBC10 News at approx. about 5:40 PM

I think they secured it after the guy banged his head against it...

I'm gonna fix that computer

Oops I meant 2 weeks ago

Or did the guy bang his head here? IDK...HEY IT WAS LIKE @ WEEKS AGO WHEN IT WAS SHOWN ON NBC10 NEWS!!!!! Yeesh...