4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

Pennhurst was a state institution for children and adults w/ developmental disabilities and mental health issues from severe to high functioning. Not a place for troubled kids. It was a place (in those days) for parents or family memebers to place there sibling or child w/ mr/mh. Some actually thought that it would be the best solution. Back then when they would think someone was mentally or physically retarded the docters would almost force parents into putting their children there. And this happened all over not just here in Pa. Ignorance and fear kept those places running. It is really a shame too because I work w/ some individuals that come from there and you can tell they will never recover from what they were put through there. Its very sad........

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Well I doubt the reports are false considering I am reading the court transcripts from the 1981 lawsuit. Which refers to a suit filed in 1974 (although those I could not find online) email me if you want a link as I am not sure of the rules on link posting here!

I normally wouldn't do this but this link will hopefully show people another shade painting from another class that apparently had a very positive experience judging from their painting. #10
http://www.elpeecho.co.../viewtopic.php?t=412

Oh Lynne...I think I love that guy. Sadly,I'm afraid, that may be too deep for some people to comprehend though.

[Psssstttt!!!!! Marcia!!!!! Should we tell anyone? ;-) ]

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/03/07/neither-black-nor-white/

I know this picture has many, many comments but I don't think anyone has ever denied that there was some abuse at Pennhurst through the years. The degree of abuse is up for debate I'm sure. And many horror stories passed on by people who may or not worked there always adds fuel to the fire. So what is your point exactly?

george, i miss you.

I do not understand why people continue to deny abuses that occurred at Pennhurst.. They were proved to be true in court.. Read the documents they are available to the public.

Ask selfadvocates how they feel about institutions. You will discover as I did that they wand nothing to do with them. Read the abuses that cccurred at Pennhurst and you will understand why!

ya i wouldnt go in that room that is a preety clear photo also it does look like his face is pretty scratched maybe hears athought im not right about this just saying that maybe that was the thing in the other pics creepy

ya hears i nice pic if u look through the doors you will see a shadow and follow the out line of the dark figure and yes im writeing to point out all the dark figures to let u know u were probaly being watched

ya that shadow would have been freaking me out a little, thats really crazy though i like the picture you should try going at night sometime to the smoke stacks my friends and i went there at night and up the one road it gets foggy and you can see a group of people outlined toghether and when u go half way up and turn around in the smoke stacks u will get a little glimps of a child looking down over u its hard to see u have to look really hard you wont get a picture though she disapears really fast im not even kidding

I think this room in the building could vary well be hunted I was in that room before as soon as i got there i wanted to leave I went at midnight but it wasn't the greatest idea i'v ever had..... I went through the one door and it shut knocking down alot of stuff i think it scared the crap out of me and my group of freinds

nice this picture is amazing I like the lighting but that shadow in the back beneath the window looks more like a cushion stuck to the window i could see that maybe it does look like there is something behind it though ,,,,, most of the pennhurst patients would hide behind things if they were afraid I dont know this for a fact but how would u feel if people kept u in a place were u could never see family or u lived in poor conditions i'd be weirded out a little ass for the tunnels im going down them probaly the safer way to get in considering that police arrested some kidds for trespassing,. I also heard some rummers that someone bought peenhurst and planes to nock every thing down can some one check if thats true nice pics though u should get some from inside the tunnels under pennhurst