An escape which was one of the most daring in the history of jail breaking in New York State occurred at the Matteawan State Hospital for Criminal Insane this evening, when a force of twenty ...

March 9.--A story more startling than any previously related was reported to-day before the Legislative committee investigating the Dixmont Insane Asylum. The witness was R.B. Parks, a former ...

The Insane Asylum built in 1855 held as many as 6,000 patients at once at one point, and that between 1855 and 1877 more than one in five of its patients died. Now the school is weighing its ...