Asylum Street became a dead end when the highway went in. It is now sandwiched between a short highway ramp and Foley Engines ...

The long-deserted Medfield State Hospital makes for a haunting site, inspiring filmmakers for years with its dark, shadowy corners and long, and often sorrowful, history ...

Just a few miles south of the dreamy canals of Venice, where gondolas glide and tourists sip espresso, lies Poveglia—a small, ...

A SINISTER abandoned asylum which has starred in several blockbuster films is set to receive a massive £22million make-over.

We Need Asylums—by Any Other Name Psychiatric hospitals were effective in getting patients to be able to live in their communities. By Readers Aug. 4, 2023 10:40 am ET Share ...

Florida's state mental hospitals are filled to near capacity, not just because of bed availability but also due to apparent staff shortages.

The new hospital, renamed Central State in 1894, operated as the only mental institution for Black people in Virginia until the end of racial segregation after passage of the Civil Rights Act 70 ...

Donald Trump once again claimed this week that migrants coming to the U.S. are coming from “prisons” and “insane asylums,” but Seth Meyers thinks he’s figured out why Trump believes the ...

The rule’s broad implications, he said, presage a socio-psychiatric revolution as sweeping as that of 1792. when Philippe Pinel struck the chains from the mentally ill in Paris asylums.

Former President Donald Trump used his interview with Fox News' Bret Baier to make the astonishing migrant claim.

Central State Hospital was founded in Richmond in 1870 as the world’s first mental institution for Black people in a state that had also established the nation's first state mental hospital in 1773.