![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "They didn't get it right," concludes Horn. In 1896, responsibility to care for the island's prisoners was transferred to the state in hopes conditions would be improved. Journalists, including Nellie Bly, went undercover to expose egregious treatment and reformers agitated for improvements. To save money, prison inmates were tasked with caring for the mentally ill. Inept administrators were politically appointed and budgets were meager. French's insightful diary and court cases of the condemned. ![]() Browse short-form content thats perfect for a quick read. Horn chronicles the horrors of the incarcerated relying on Episcopalian Reverend William G. (Download Book) Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York - Stacy Horn. During the next 15 years, a workhouse, almshouse, hospital, and penitentiary were constructed. In 1839, an asylum was opened and subsequently overcrowded. In 1828, New York purchased Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island) in the East River to build state-of-the-art facilities for the city's poor residents who were considered to be insane. Horn (Imperfect Harmony) presents a fast-paced history of Blackwell's Island, "a lounging, listless madhouse," according to a visiting Charles Dickens. ![]()
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