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Abbott stood trial in August 1867 and was committed to Taunton State Hospital, a lunatic asylum in Massachusetts. After that, little is known, and details surrounding the case remain mysterious.

While national attention focuses on Springfield's immigration issues, the small village of Lockland is grappling with its own ...

Psychiatry was an infant science" In a Somerset town a small group of volunteers are slowly and sensitively revealing the stories of those who lived at the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

Whether you dismiss urban legends as children's lore or believe they're based on fact, these 50 tales will send a shiver up ...

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny ...

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He claimed migrants and asylum seekers were “coming from prisons. They’re coming from jails. They’re coming from mental institutions and insane asylums.” He repeated this claim at the ...

A new report by Israeli news site Haaretz exposed a practice that the Israeli military has adopted to force African asylum ...

An asylum seeker who has been waiting years for an Australian visa has blasted a Labor MP over immigration laws, complaining he doesn't want to be sucked into a life of crime but the government ...

People travelling as part of mixed movements have varying needs and may include asylum-seekers, refugees, stateless people, victims of trafficking, unaccompanied or separated children, and migrants in ...