Maryland mental health hospital 'Crownsville' transformed

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Maryland mental health hospital 'Crownsville' transformed


Crownsville Hospital opened in 1911 and closed in 2004. For decades, it was the only place that accepted Black Maryland residents suffering with mental illness. NBC News’ Antonia Hylton is out with a new book, “Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum” and got an exclusive tour of the hospital grounds as the community prepares to…

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  1. I lived just down the road from this place. I had heard about this long ago. I went there a few times to visit a friend that suffered from PTSD but at that time they thought it was him. Luckily he got out of there and moved to Florida and got the help he really needed. Now living a normal life if that is what you want to call it with all the medications he is on.

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