President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back "insane asylums" to imprison people with "serious mental illness". In an interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, the ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

For the third and final story in EastIdahoNews.com’s Fact or Folklore series on Blackfoot, we saved the best for last, exploring an age-old question that continues to captivate the community: Is State ...

During several campaign rallies this year, Donald Trump denounced the political practice of asylum—namely, the legal status requested by foreigners fleeing political persecution and violence and ...

The Warneford Hospital is holding a year-long programme of events to mark its bicentenary.

Such narratives included books such as the 1868 “ The prisoners’ hidden life; or, Insane asylums unveiled,” an account by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard, of her three-year internment in the Illinois ...