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Just knowing that these are probably the hydrotherapy tubs spoken of in Gennie's story make me feel like I've been kicked in the stomach. To be put in a bathtub full of ice cold water repeatedly to "cure" you of your mental illness is so pathetically medieval.

I love the way the color drains out from the left side of the photo to the right.

My mother takes care of two former Pennhurst patients....they have a collective I.Q. of about 50, but they'll never forget their 40+ years in that place.

They might have it there to scare ppl away

Does it look like someone is sitting at the end of the hall or are my eyes just triking me?

The algee is so creepy

I would never go anywhere close to that place at nite!!

Whats the big pile of dust on thedesk on the far left Motts?

It looks like someone or something is trying to fall outt of the window

me and my friend been there at nite its creepy

The forgotten furniture add some thoughts on the photo's you realise people have living here

ahhaha I saw like all the others standing cages..saw the ropes of coton and thought brrr but scrolling down you said for the laundry, I hope so...haha

You make great photo's you can feel the atmosphere by this I was suprised that the windows are not broken .

i currently have clients that used to live at pennhurst. I work in the field with mentally and physically handicapped. This place forever changed them, as if they didn't have it hard already. the abuse they got while they were there was ridiculous but, at the time it was the only place around to send your child if they had "problems" you couldnt...or in some cases, didn't want to deal with. Im so glad, looking back, at how far we as a society have come. At least, in this day and age, in MOST places people with disaillities get the care and attention they deserve.

That's not a hair dryer, it's a brain fryer. Known on the abbreviation list as BCT - Brain Cook Therapy