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Some see it as prison, others home. The point of the windows being encased like that was to protect the patients from themselves. You have to realize before shatterproof glass and such this was the safest way to protect a person from jumping or breaking the windows and using the glass to injure themselves. There was, on some level, a medical reasoning behind it, even if not all the patients placed in facilities like this needed or deserved the treatment they got. Also treatment has come a long way, but without the poor souls that came first some of the treatments we have now would not exist or be as effective as they are now.
also, you have to keep in mind that the building has been abandoned for years, and i'm sure the bars weren't quite as pronounced, for lack of a better word. there most likely would have been other things in the room that would keep the bars from being so much of a focus but more of just an aspect of the room.