Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
by Christopher Payne
Mit Pr

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On pages 42 and 71, you will find photographs of the Northampton State Hospital. There, when I was 16, my friends and I were threatened with arrest by police who patrolled the decrepit grounds day and night. This monstrously vast facility fascinated us, as it had others who had pried their ways inside to explore not just exam rooms still containing x-rays, mortuaries, underground tunnels, and other mysterious, otherworldly realms of the past, but also simply the time-saturated, crumbling walls. Flip through to find lonely beds, empty theaters, ghostly hallways, numbered graves, dry baths, abandoned medical supplies, and suitcases that never found their way home.