Secure Facility

guess you can't pick your neighbors

What a view!!

Forensic area? What goes on there exactly?

I always want to go through this place..never got the chance. I thought you guys where out of the uk? By the way I'm from Mich.

There's a forensic unit at Mayview State Hospital in PA. It will be closing at the end of the year...

i used to live in this town...my sister and brother went to school around the corner and i went to Saline High..we would always joke that it was really stupid to put a school next to so many prisons. There is a new mental institute at the corner and then a big prison on the other side of the street. THis was amazing to see, i could only see it from the road and the field on the one side when i played soccer there as a child. thanks a lot! so cool

What lens are you using in this photo? It looks like a wide angle, but what mm and is it a canon lens?

Tokina 12-24?

Broken windows always seem so creepy to me.

looks like something out of jurrasic park

I worked in these state facilities in Illinois, forensics populations include, not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) and unfit to stand trial (UST). The GUILTY but insane are at the prisons with designated housing for the criminally insane . People also came into forensics from the jails if they exhibited suicidal behavior or other behavior requiring mental health evaluation. A member of the population exhibiting behavior that would authorize change in status from NGRI would be tranferred to the prison system, UST members of the population could be deemed fit and tried for their crime, if found guilty they would be transferred to the penal system. The buildings and wards were locked..the population was free within the ward unless behavior required physical or medical restraint , which was determined by medical staff.

you are obssessed with suicide! You have said the same in at least ten threads!

You know what really strikes me...

Old, dull-looking building to the left and shiny, newer-looking building to the right.

A study in contrasts again. Old and new...run-down and intact.

Nice work Motts! You are my HERO!!!!

As a young juvenile deliquent who ran away from home many times, I was sent to Ypsilanti Hospital to the children's wards. It was a wake up call for me. I do have pleasant memories of the friends I made there, both staff and other troubled teens, but especially of the social worker who got me into a foster home in six months. I then graduated high school, joined the navy and retired after twenty three years of service in submarines. At age 67, I have two wonderful kids, one having a Phd and the other an engineer. The hospital did change my life around. The hospital wasn't all that bad.

Continuing my last post, as a juvenile patient at the hospital, I can attest to the treatment given by staff. There were weekly street parties with dancing, free roaming of the grounds, trips to state parks, a great arts program, and good food. Boys were separated from the girls, but there was socializing, both supervised and non supervised. Not every patient was the stereotype mental case, some kids were sent there simply because the parents couldn't deal with them and they weren't bad enough for the juvenile penal system.

One last post. The hospital sat on about one or two hundred acres of beautifully landscaped property, almost like a golf course, and not all wards were fenced in. From the juvenile ward, we could walk the park like grounds all the way to the main highway. Why didn't we run away or escape? We were so far out in the country we didn't know where to go. Besides, it was a heck of a lot better place to be than juvenile detention in Detroit or prison where they often threatened to send us.

Anyone have any info on a very large mansion looking house, it was on willis road, at the south end of the State property, South side of willis road, north side was a golf course on the hospital grounds. The home I speak of was torn down 10 or 15 years ago, any info about it would be great.

Worked for IBM repairing the forensic center's computers back in the 70's.. The folks who worked there in this facility for the criminally insane really had their hands full. I remember the orderly's had syringe packs on their belts so they could sedete patients quickly. They had the worst of the worst for the criminally insane.. I knew a lot of the people who worked there and even though the building was old they ran a really tight ship.. Can't forget the razor wire and the radar in the no mans land around the faciility.