Suffer the Little Children
- Podcast Episode
- 2023
- 40m
Pennhurst Asylum may have opened with the best of intentions, but it didn't end up that way. In its 79 years of operation, the asylum was characterized by the harshest of patient mistreatmen... Read allPennhurst Asylum may have opened with the best of intentions, but it didn't end up that way. In its 79 years of operation, the asylum was characterized by the harshest of patient mistreatment. Its more than 10,000 residents were subjected to what the Philadelphia Inquirer describ... Read allPennhurst Asylum may have opened with the best of intentions, but it didn't end up that way. In its 79 years of operation, the asylum was characterized by the harshest of patient mistreatment. Its more than 10,000 residents were subjected to what the Philadelphia Inquirer described as "medical experimentation, cruel punishments, and constant threats to physical and ps... Read all