4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

This reminds me of the movie House On Haunted Hill when the girl is using her video camera and walks in on a live surgery that isn't visible to the naked eye

Motts...why don't you adopt them all? They seem so lonely...

I live in the Third World, and public hospitals still have beds like those....

Good Luck trying to analyze me. It was the last comment.

Excellent, heart-rending work, ~Me.

I'm going to jump on the bandwagon here only because these are the images that frighten me the most and I have to just share...While places like Pennhurst with the overt abuse and mistreatment no longer exist, everyday I see adults abusing kids that we're meant to take care of. Some of these kids have psychiatric disorders that cause them to have frightening flashbacks and instead of comforting them, I frequently watch staff downgrade them or, worse yet, put their hands on them. In fact there was an incident a few days ago where a staff member was let go for child abuse. Somehow it seems that Human Services attracts a lot of people with power and control and THAT is what makes these pictures so haunting. To know that adults took advantage of these kids.

State Schools frighten me even more than asylums do. Working at a residential facility, it's nothing more than a glorified state school. Sometimes I think snake pit characterizes my school better than it did Danvers!

~Me that is beautiful.

**Buys Lynne a special "forehead protector"....more haldol...never enough cumezekyames......**

Very nice Lynne-
Like I said before Lynne and Serrena both work at Puff the Magic Dragon Buildings.
Puff = Psychiatric Health Facility.

At a large ICF-MR in a southeastern state. How's that for discreet? ;-)

If you go to Pennhurst now, you see names on the buildings like Quaker Hall or Store Building. But according to Mr. Ferleger, the buildings were called A, B, C etc. but they changed the names in the middle of the court case. I guess they wanted people to get the impression that they wern't so impersonal.

All these buildings were so beautiful..what a waste.

I went to a private school when I was in..::Thinks hard:: Kindergarden I think, and the girls bathroom was blue, and the guys was pink.
There's probally something more behind it.

WAIT, Motts how can a whole wing be unnoticable? WERID.