605 Comments for Marlboro State Hospital

...And to think- that in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in Salem Mass.,some of those executed were intered with a head stone that included the line "hanged as a witch..."

(in the 1967 documentary "Titicut Follies", about the life and times at Bridgewater Prison for the Criminally Insane, also in Mass.,(film was banned for thirty years) I found the scene of a deceased inmate to be starkly bleak,and no one was there save the priest, Warden,and those who would bury him .
When in prison you lose people and family as they bail on you,but you may meet others; even pen pals. You may even marry.
When you are in an insane institution you lose even more people,as try as they may they get tired of you and can''t keep up with the situation.
When you are in a prison for the criminally insane you lose everybody.

Stark


Suppose it could be worse ; i.e.; institution for the criminally insane.

Back to a disturbing wheelchair, not a warm one.

A wooden reclining wheelchair- with three wheels.
Looks like it should be on the deck of a cruise ship.

Ugly tile.

Seems more as it should. (an insane place)

Somebodies (insane) idiosyncratic obsesive compulsive disorder. Each one different. Like fingerprints.

Doors opening in and doors opening out..only these doors only swing out.

Yeah, sometimes a room like all other rooms will be used as a janitor's closet or storage.I recently worked as a guard at an apartment complex where each building would have a little anti-room under one of the stairs,and in this case, one of those holes was being used as security station, but, who knows.......
Heck of a thing if they actually locked some one in like that.

Strange. Hard to say...............

Hard to say. But it does look like some sort of vacuum press with heat transfer.

That looks more like a hold-down clamp than a door handle.

Totally agree with Deb

Magnificent..!

I see there a person, on the left.
Motts , was there someone when you did the shot?

Oooo... Looks like someone should pass there, behind the web...