4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

all you have to do is google pennhurst. the third item down is title 1968: the pennhurst special report........wcau(nbc)

It's scarier that all the "normal" people refused to vote for money for these places and didn't care what happened to these people until it hit the paper over and over and over again and the courts and families and advocacy agencies finally did something about it. Don't throw stones at the people who worked here who kept these folks alive - throw stones at the voters who didn't fund these places or the community people who ran scared from these places as if plague-carrying rats lived here and people who still invent scary ghost stories about places like this because it's the only way they can face the fact that 99.9% of the country didn't give 2 cents about the people who lived here.

You're part of the problem or you're part of the solution.

Now, where is that exit from my soap box? :-)

there is a easier way to watch all 5 parts to the nbc piece. just google pennhurst. and i believe it is the 3rd one down. it says 1968:Pennhurst special report. video vault news wcau( nbc). that is where i found the best one!!!!! best version. that is the reason i am soooo facinated!!! that and i know people that have been there.

It's really strange in most of these shots to see all of the stuff left behind. I wonder if the state really even cared about this place when it was closed down. This picture reminds me of the ward in the movie " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

It is scary that doctors and nurses, heck people, did this to other human beings. I encourage everyone to look into the Willowbrook State School, in New York. Here is a letter from someone who worked there http://www.thecrimson....icle.aspx?ref=120007

I used to go hang out here all the time and i always loved the mosaics. They are so stange, it seems to me that they are slaves on a plantation.
They were actually made at the Moravian Tile Works in Doylestown. Ive been more than twenty times and the only patrol I ever saw as one MP in a blue mini van. This place is a national treasure, I feel blessed to have explored it.

No... only by dust and neglect.

the place is probably haunted

I have been down there before there is mad asbestos

Did you ever consider that maybe her scars were from when she lived at home? Having worked there and read many case histories sometimes going to Pennhurst was a step up from where they came from. You shouldn't assume that because she was black she was abused.

We had planned to sleep in the morgue but we chickened out. We just might the next time we go up with a more able guide.

The freezer is in the basement of whitman hall to the west of the admin building.

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Looks like you were the only one who found the shower room.

I was in that room just Friday.

BTW. Those things get pulled out of the plastic packaging. if you go into I think it's either Union, Vinc or Tinicum you'll find a bunch of them just sitting on the floor in plastic wrappers. I found more of those red&white uniforms in a closet. I wanted one but they were all to dirty.