The Stockton State Hospital, formerly known as the Stockton State Insane Asylum, was built in 1853 and was California's first facility for housing the mentally ill. But like most such facilities at this point in history, conditions in the hospital were less than ideal and may have included forced labor, sterilization, electroshock therapy, lobotomies, and perhaps burial in mass graves. In 2005, in fact, one of these mass graves was discovered on the grounds, and it's believed that more than 4,000 patients were disposed of, unidentified, in just this way. Join Tom and Jenny on a fascinating journey through the history of the treatment of the mentally ill on this insanely troubling episode 395.
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