Ejection bed perhaps?

Again, this resembles the gym from the Marion, VA hospital, so eerie and nostalgic in a strange, PTSD-ish sort of way.

AHHHH!! the tub room, a horrid term for me. I remember my first night in the state hospital, I was forced to take a shower in front of nurses while they held open the curtain and lorded over me, staring, and then made me stand there naked as they took an inventory of my scars/injuries. That room was freezing, and the event was dehumanizing. But its all for the "protection" of the patients i suppose. Nice photo, so sterile.

This looks remarkably like my old middle school.

I expect to see zombies attack at any moment. This reminds me of the scenery of some sort of "Resident Evil" type monster slaying game.

No jumpers here. It would suck to hide from the zombies if they were in there with you.

Oh the disgusting, beautiful terror that will ensue pat this point.

Not to be too critical, but lynns writing reminds me of the nurses in that damn mental hospital I was in. Always had a perfect, beurocratic, and PC answer to everything. Sure, it is easy to look at everything from a cold and clinical standpoint, but lets try to think about things from the perspective of the patients, afterall, THEY are the ones who really matter in these situations, not the staff, or the taxpayers, but the patients, who have no say in their wellbeing or lives while being inplaced in these institutions. This is a very harrowing and disturbing image.

Ahhh, to bathe in dirt, dust, and paint chips... even that couldn't wash away the horrors commited within this breathing mechanism of torture we call an instution.

Prison cell, bedroom, all the same thing in the eyes of the state.

The lack of privacy, how hauntingly reminiscent of my stay in a VA state adolescents ward....

Its such a beautiful illusion, being in a structure like this would make one insane, not help them.