Asylum scandals: abuse, torture, corruption and murder in minnesota's state hospitals - Patricia Lubeck

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• Insane asylums have a horrific history.
• Originally intended to provide a place to keep away madness within society, asylums eventually paved the way for medical professionals to study patients with mental illness.
• The asylums were palatial buildings surrounded with vast landscaped grounds and beautiful vistas.
• Due to overcrowding, untrained staff, and corrupt administrators, these institutions gradually became places of squalor and negligence.
• State funding could not keep up with the high cost of maintaining the monstrous structures.
• As time went on, more and more patients were admitted, making it difficult to keep up with the demand for better care.
• By the 1980s, many state hospitals were closed.
• This book gives the history of Minnesota's two oldest state hospitals St.
• Peter, which opened in 1866, followed by Rochester in 1879. Back then, laws allowed families to commit their spouses, relatives or friends with little supporting evidence.
• Many times, people were committed involuntarily and never released.