12 hours ago Farview was founded by an act of the state legislature on May 11, 1905 as the first and only institution in the state devoted exclusively to the care and treatment of the criminally insane. It was located on a 950 acre tract of land just west of Waymart on land donated to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by the Delaware & Hudson Railroad. >> Go To The Portal
Farview was founded by an act of the state legislature on May 11, 1905 as the first and only institution in the state devoted exclusively to the care and treatment of the criminally insane. It was located on a 950 acre tract of land just west of Waymart on land donated to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by the Delaware & Hudson Railroad.
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Title ; Farview State Hospital patient's death, Date ; January 4, 1980 ; Identifier ; ais9830.11.02.0154 ; Type ; text ; Genre ; press release ; Source ; Dick ...
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Wendell Rawls Jr. first wrote of the Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. The book continues this story. Treatment turns to terror, punishment is the crime, and shelter becomes a warehouse for dead storage. No one cares.
Many men at Farview were beaten to death by guard s, or made to participate in human cockfights for the entertainment of the guards, who put down bets on their favorites. Inmates were deprived of toilet paper, homosexually abused by the guards and other patients, and confined to narrow, solitary rooms for years.
They also shared a common mandate with the hospital superintendent and local politicians -- to keep things running smoothly with as much state money as they could get and as little state interference as they could get by with. Rawls gives us his glimpses of motives.
Nonfiction becomes a horror tale, "a litany of neglect, of men the world, and maybe God, had forgotten about.". One inmate, Paul Kirchoff, when charged with disturbing the peace after an argument with his brother, had been sentenced to 30 days in jail. He hesitated at the jailhouse door; the jailer gave him a shove. He shoved back.