Reenactor Laura Keyes will portray Elizabeth Packard in a one-woman show about “The Woman They Could Not Silence,” according to Jacksonville Area Museum. The 6 p.m. June 12 show in Illinois College’s ...

In 1867, the 17-year-old allegedly poisoned ... she was sent to the Toronto Lunatic Asylum as one of its earliest patients. There, she was declared criminally insane. Sketches of Grace Marks ...

Others carried on for years before killing themselves or being committed to insane asylums ... entered the asylum never left it. One file includes a photograph of the patient, in old age, still ...

A terminally ill asylum seeker with days to live could die alone in Hong Kong as she waits to be transported back to her home country. Christine Aquino, 39, from the Philippines, has waited for ...