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|1= April 28, 2011 [http://www.sykesvillefire.org/apps/public/news/newsView.cfm?News_ID=401 Fire breaks out at Henryton Hospital‎ ]
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|1=February 7, 2016 [http://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/local/clarinda-struggles-to-fill-former-hospital/article_5a2612fa-10ff-5047-9f59-080d06bf58b7.html Clarinda struggles to fill former hospital]
|2= Firefighters were alerted this evening for a reported fire at the Henryton State Hospital. Firefighters arrived to find heavy fire through the roof of a large 4 story building. Numerous Firefighters from Carroll, Howard, and Baltimore Counties were called to assist. The Sykesville Fire Department has responded to numerous fires at the abandoned state hospital in the past several years. The hospital has been shut down by the state and there is no electric or utilities to the facility. It continues to be a problem for firefighter safety when we are called to the scene. In recent years the facility has been a hot spot for malicious teenagers and ghost hunters. [http://eldersburg.patch.com/articles/multiple-units-respond-to-henryton-state-hospital-fire Related Article], [http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/local/fire-breaks-out-at-henryton-hospital/article_5c907814-720f-11e0-ae96-001cc4c002e0.html Related Article]
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|2=The 128-year-old former mental health institute in the small southwest Iowa city of Clarinda isn’t your typical real estate opportunity, and so far no one is rushing to move in. More than seven months after the state closed the Clarinda Mental Health Institute, much of the sprawling building remains empty, including entire floors that haven’t been used in decades.
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|1= April 26, 2011 [http://kykernel.com/2011/04/26/excavations-continue-at-eastern-state-hospital/ Excavations continue at Eastern State Hospital]
 
|2= Excavations are still in progress on the grounds of [[Eastern State Hospital Lexington]], where a team of archaeologists are exhuming human remains of former patients from the 1840s to the 1860s. ESH, located on West Fourth Street in Lexington, is the second oldest psychiatric facility in the country and is thought to have thousands of bodies buried in different locations near the hospital. The Kentucky Archaeology Survey was commissioned by the Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet to examine the ESH area, where construction for the new Bluegrass Community and Technical College construction will begin.
 
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|1= February 22, 2011 [http://www.lex18.com/news/unearthing-of-remains-found-at-eastern-state-hospital-starting-wednesday Unearthing Of Remains Found At Eastern State Hospital Starting Wednesday]
 
|2= On Wednesday, the Finance and Administration Cabinet's Division of Engineering and a team of archaeologists from the Kentucky Archaeological Survey are scheduled to begin exhuming human remains found in an unmarked cemetery on the grounds of [[Eastern State Hospital Lexington]].
 
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|1= February 11, 2011 [http://www.khastv.com/news/local/Hastings-Regional-Center-115989839.html A look at the history of the Hastings Regional Center]
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|1=February 1, 2016 [http://www.pjstar.com/article/20160201/NEWS/160209955 Efforts continue to preserve other parts of former Peoria State Hospital grounds]
|2=It was built as the Hospital for the Un-curably Insane. Now it is better known as the Hastings Regional Center. The facility has been part of the community's rich history for more than a century. And as lawmakers decide whether it will remain open, News Five's Anthony Pura takes us back in time to see it's storied past and uncertain future. Images frozen in time. Memories pulled from archives. Stories told from recollection. "It used to be a fully self sustaining place," said Laverne Schreiner.
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|2=Christina Morris happily remembers Sunday morning breakfasts with her grandparents, followed by visits to the peaceful cemeteries on the grounds of the Peoria State Hospital, where some family members are buried. “My interest with the state hospital started when I was about 7 years old,” Morris said in a recent interview. “When I would come onto the grounds (my grandfather) would say that this was a place of special people. (By special) I thought he meant giants, because these buildings were so big and beautiful and immaculate to me. I just was enamored by how beautiful it was.
 
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|1= February 10, 2011 [http://www.kval.com/news/local/115524949.html? 'They died at the hospital and no one ever claimed their remains']
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|2=The medical records room on the [[Oregon State Hospital]] campus looks exactly as it sounds: like a records room. Tucked away on the on the hospital campus in Salem, the small room holds the ashes of 3,500 cremated patients. "These were people who lived at the Oregon State Hospital and other institutions between 1914 and the 1970s," said Gipson-King. "They died here at the hospital and no one ever came to claim their remains."
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|1=January 7, 2016 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sterilization-united-states_568f35f2e4b0c8beacf68713?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%2BVoices&section=latino-voices That Time The United States Sterilized 60,000 Of Its Citizens]
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|2=Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws. Most of these operations were performed before the 1960s in institutions for the so-called “mentally ill” or “mentally deficient.” In the early 20th century across the country, medical superintendents, legislators, and social reformers affiliated with an emerging eugenics movement joined forces to put sterilization laws on the books.
 
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|1= February 6, 2011 [http://www.kentucky.com/2011/02/06/1623941/discovery-of-graves-at-eastern.html Discovery of graves at Eastern State Hospital fuels family mystery]
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|2=Lois and Cindy Shelton, a mother and daughter in Lexington, are trying to solve a family mystery that is buried along with the thousands of patients who were interred on the [[Eastern State Hospital Lexington]] grounds for more than 100 years.
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|1=January, 6, 2016 [http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/harrisburg_state_hospital_site.html Pa. hires firm to develop plan for Harrisburg State Hospital site]
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|2= Harrisburg, PA-The state has hired a Lancaster planning company to help it figure out what to do with the former [[Harrisburg State Hospital]], which closed 10 years ago. Since closing in 2006, the hospital complex has housed state workers from the state police, Department of General Services and the Department of Human Services. It is now part of the larger DGS Annex property, which encompasses 303 acres across Harrisburg and Susquehanna Township.
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|1= February 3, 2011 [http://www.kentucky.com/2011/02/03/1622047/eastern-state-hospital-demolition.html Eastern State Hospital demolition]
 
|2=The main building at the old [[Eastern State Hospital Lexington]] was being torn down at the corner of Newtown Pike and West Fourth Street in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. A new Bluegrass Community and Technical College will be built at this location and a new Eastern State Hospital will be built on the property at the Coldstream Research Park. The demolition of this building started on Monday and is being done by Solid Rock Construction from West Portsmouth, OH.
 
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|1= January 20, 2011 [http://www.kentucky.com/2011/01/20/1604185/burial-grounds-found-at-building.html#more Remains of 20 to 30 people found on Eastern State grounds]
 
|2=The remains of 20 to 30 people thought to be [[Eastern State Hospital Lexington]] residents in the 1800s have been found on the hospital grounds where the new Bluegrass Community and Technical College will be built, officials said Wednesday. Similar remains in unmarked graves were found on the state mental hospital's grounds in 2005.
 
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|1= January 16, 2011 [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013957677_stateproperty17m.html State to sell old mental hospital]
 
|2=For sale: a former mental hospital just listed as a historic site, a juvenile jail and a handful of office buildings and other state properties that are vacant or soon will be vacated. At 225 acres, one of the largest properties on the list is a former state mental hospital in Sedro-Woolley. It's now partly occupied by a few nonprofits and government agencies. Called [[Northern State Hospital]], the psychiatric hospital was built in 1909 and operated until 1973.
 
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|1= January 11, 2011 [http://www.wickedlocal.com/medfield/features/x1062715202/Medfield-State-Hospital-contaminant-picture-to-become-clearer-after-meeting Medfield State Hospital contaminant picture to become clearer after meeting]
 
|2=The state will present a report on the sources, types, and extent of the contamination at site of the former Medfield State Hospital Thursday night. The town and state expects to turn the area into residential housing, but must overcome a number of environmental hurdles first.
 
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|1= December 27, 2010 [http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2010/12/former-va-asylum-converted-upscale-condos Former Va asylum converted into upscale condos]
 
|2=Standing shoulder to shoulder in Room 203, the three women from different parts of the country compared their memories. Each took a job at the old [[Western State Hospital]] in successive years: 1957, 1958 and 1959. On Sunday they returned to the building for an open house of the former asylum, now the site of some of Staunton's most lavish condominiums.
 
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|1= December 15, 2010 [http://articles.mcall.com/2010-12-15/news/mc-allentown-state-hospital-closure-120101215_1_mental-illness-substance-abuse-services-mental-health End of an era at Allentown State Hospital]
 
|2=The official closure of [[Allentown State Hospital]] on Wednesday was part rally for residents asserting their independence and part farewell to a century-old relic of how society once regarded mental illness.
 
 
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February 7, 2016 Clarinda struggles to fill former hospital

The 128-year-old former mental health institute in the small southwest Iowa city of Clarinda isn’t your typical real estate opportunity, and so far no one is rushing to move in. More than seven months after the state closed the Clarinda Mental Health Institute, much of the sprawling building remains empty, including entire floors that haven’t been used in decades.

February 1, 2016 Efforts continue to preserve other parts of former Peoria State Hospital grounds

Christina Morris happily remembers Sunday morning breakfasts with her grandparents, followed by visits to the peaceful cemeteries on the grounds of the Peoria State Hospital, where some family members are buried. “My interest with the state hospital started when I was about 7 years old,” Morris said in a recent interview. “When I would come onto the grounds (my grandfather) would say that this was a place of special people. (By special) I thought he meant giants, because these buildings were so big and beautiful and immaculate to me. I just was enamored by how beautiful it was.”

January 7, 2016 That Time The United States Sterilized 60,000 Of Its Citizens

Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws. Most of these operations were performed before the 1960s in institutions for the so-called “mentally ill” or “mentally deficient.” In the early 20th century across the country, medical superintendents, legislators, and social reformers affiliated with an emerging eugenics movement joined forces to put sterilization laws on the books.

January, 6, 2016 Pa. hires firm to develop plan for Harrisburg State Hospital site

Harrisburg, PA-The state has hired a Lancaster planning company to help it figure out what to do with the former Harrisburg State Hospital, which closed 10 years ago. Since closing in 2006, the hospital complex has housed state workers from the state police, Department of General Services and the Department of Human Services. It is now part of the larger DGS Annex property, which encompasses 303 acres across Harrisburg and Susquehanna Township.