Cecilia, I just found this site. Yes those little hands are men and women entering their senior citizen age, or late fifties. These individuals yes can be your neighbors. Many were placed in CLA's, they are facing years of torture and abuse, rejection and frustrated cause they were nevered Loved. They are having nighmares and cringe hearing the word Pennhurst. Some not able to tell their stories cause have can not communicate, mostly cause they were afraid to speak or never taught to speak. I know this cause I work with many individuals who were "patients" and "residents" of Pennhurst.

To all of you who think going in there for fun to get your picture, thank God that you were not forced to go there and that you are going there at your own free will and at a time when it is closed. It is not a playground, It was a place where human rights were not practiced or even respected. If those walls could talk.