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Constructed in 1870, it was the "insane asylum," where people judged by the state to be "incurably insane" were locked away. Local historian Don Wentworth believes it is haunted. "When you go ...
Tommy Sim'aan in Insane Asylum Seekers at the Bush Theatre The bleak, cutting reality of war swings into darkly comic sequences and tongue-in-cheek segues. We’re introduced to his dad ...
Tommy Sim’aan’s charismatic performance breathes life and joy into this dark comedy about generational trauma Based on lived experience, Laith Elzubaidi’s heartfelt examination of PTSD and ...
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Back in March, the Trump administration bragged about raiding a big Tren de Aragua gathering" in the Texas hill country outside of Austin. Forty-five people were taken into custody, including children ...
Gov. Gilbert Walker, whom Canby had appointed, accepted the requirement and established the Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane at Howard’s Grove, a former Confederate hospital just ...
At least 375 Nigerian citizens sought asylum in Sweden in 2024, according to the Swedish Migration Agency’s 2024 asylum application data obtained by Saturday PUNCH. Of figure, 239 were first ...
The building — which once was called the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane — is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays year-round. "Last weekend, we had to turn people away.
A new report has revealed a dramatic rise in homelessness in Peel Region, with asylum claimants — particularly Black African individuals — comprising a significant proportion of those experiencing ...
In mid-December, she and her mother fled Venezuela, intending to claim political asylum in the United States. But, midway through their journey north, President Donald Trump, in one of his first ...
In 1961 Franco Basaglia, a young psychiatrist, was named director of the Lunatic Asylum of Gorizia, a mental hospital that confined some six hundred people. 3 Basaglia was a member of a prominent ...