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Caption: Opened as a psychiatric hospital and home for the indigent in 1919, the hospital held many people judged to be criminally insane. Over the years, during the increasing wave of "de-institutionalization" in favor of community-based care, the hospital population steadily decreased. But it has been the locus of psychiatric evaluation for several high-profile inmates imprisoned elsewhere, including Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted of rape and child sexual abuse in 2012.
Credit: Ca. 2019, Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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