The county built the asylum in 1889. Such places were intended as humane alternatives to poorhouses and jails. Desolate lives and deaths were often the fate of people with mental illnesses %u2014 ...

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 27.--It was only by hard and intelligent work that a disaster, far exceeding that at Kankakee last week, was avoided at the Indiana Hospital for the Insane to-day.

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The insane asylum in Binghampton, New York, seen in 1890. The Gothic-inspired main building (pictured) was opened in 1864 as the first facility to treat alcoholism as a mental disorder. It was ...

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Before this collaborative production between the RSC and Cardboard Citizens has even begun, the audience are asked to 'sign in' - a process intended to recall the first stage of an asylum application.