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I love the angled, high ceiling! The different textures are great!

Thank goodness for the view this person had...the cell is so small and claustrophobic.

Bri, that soap dispenser is broken... : (

That bed doesn't look very comfortable. My back aches just looking at it.

That's so sad! What am I to do?!?! The want to wash my hands and no soap dispenser to help me out... :'0( Oh, Tony C.....

Looks like a very sad place......

It does now, yes. What did they keep in there? Bears?

(this is a joke referring to the strangely confined cells)

I love the way you took this shot Motts, the bed looks a hundred feet long.

Jude, now that you mention it, it really does.
Cool

lost and lonely... i believe i have spent a night or two.

So close to freedom , yet so far....

It still lends to the fact of a confined patient. The room is so small, that if you place equipment in here, the staff would not be able to get around with a loose patient. There appears to be a door in the wall at the head of the bed. To keep medical supplies? or a Closet for the patient's belongings? hmmmm.....

how could this be possible to live in...no wonder they became crazy....this is unacceptable

yeah but some of the cells in a prison had a place to use the bathroom did any of theses rooms have that? what i have seen in this picture i can't really tell if they had to go to the bathroom wut did they have to do use it on there selfs?

Had my first visit today after looking at this palce for MANY years. Started on the far right, went ionot some of the buildings and houses dodging security. To MANY people out there today, your bound to get caught but played it smart, left , and will return again. I WILL get into each but not so easy, not all seem to have a place to get in without breaking a window. Can anybody tell me which building was the Salmon building and location from the Kettle building? Alos is there any buildings worth exploring across the street. I can not believe how VAST this place is!

I dont think i need the bog anymore

the salmon building is many buildings behind the keetle building

Just a suggestion, the FBI is using NSH for manuevers training, I wouldn't want to break into any of the buildings right now.

What a depressing and frightning room.

I dont get it....criminal... mentally ill???? How can u be both? Then again the bars are on the OUTSIDE of the window....Did they have tasers back then?

Wow...other than that, the photo leaves me speechless.

When a person with mental illness is charged with a crime, their mental state will be evaluated. If it is found that their thinking is so distorted that they did not know the difference between right and wrong at the time of the crime, they can be found "not guilty by reason of insanity." Different states use different terminology, including things like "guilty but insane," "not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect" or "not guilty by reason of diminished capacity" (this one usually applies to a person with mental retardation). After such a verdict, the person is sent to a forensic psychiatric unit instead of to prison.

i would like to make myself comfortable and sleep

considering the other precautions for these rooms, the hanging light fixtures seem ...odd.

Just to clarify, an individual can be found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect *or* not competent to stand trial. There are typically different facilities for each class.

Typicaly yes there are different facilities for each class, now. But Even though the hospital closed in 1996, the Salmon Buiding closed even before then and patients were sent to different facilities. When the Salmon Building was being used the term used most ofter was "Criminally Insane", there was no "Not Guilty be reason of mental disease or defect", "Not compntant to stand trial". If a person with any sort of mental illness commited a crime (usually a violent crime), the were deemed "Criminally Insane". And many times they were treated no better than animals, unlike the present day when they are separated into different categories and watch to make sure that they don't hurt themselves and get the help they actually need these people were placed here so that they couldn't hurt others but could not be placed in a regular prison because they were "Insane", really not long before they were placed in regular prisons and usually did not live more than a couple of years after being placed in the regular prison, suicide or murder was how many of them died, at est at the hospital they weren't going to be murdered because some inmate didn't like the fact that they acted "funny". Also on another note though many people who had mental illness were placed in prisons for no reason other than the fact that people didn't understand tham and were scared of them, before Mental Hospitals became the place to place the mentally ill.

Wow. Thats quite a picture. We didn't have bars on the window in the psychiatric hospital I was in. Actually we didn't have a window in our rooms. Only windows were in the dayroom and was made of double thick plexiglas.