Photos: Insane Asylums Around the World

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Basic human rights often seem not to apply to the mentally ill or mentally retarded. This was the conclusion of photographer Eugene Richards, who wandered the world to document the animalistic conditions of insane asylums in Paraguay, Armenia, Mexico, Hungary and Kosovo. Most of these institutions mix patients together without regard for condition or temperament, leaving the dangerous ones free to prey upon other patients, including children and even a few perfectly sane castaways, who simply have nowhere else to go. Some of the worst abuses are being reined in, thanks to the efforts of Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI). Here, at a facility in Asuncion, Paraguay, nearly 50 residents hold their mattresses in a courtyard while their rooms are hosed down.

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I am a mentally ill person from India and i can assure you that the condition of mentally ill people is horrible in India.Ofcourse there is a lot of poverty and misery in india but there are 130 million mentally ill people.these people are shunned and hated by Indian society.they are kept in sub-human conditions in asylums chained,beaten,given electric shocks and even urinated and defecated upon.I don't think the plight for mentally ill people is any better wordlwide but in India it is sickening.As a mentally ill person myself suffering from schizophrenia i think the United Nations should put sanctions on India for inhuman treatment of it's people 80% of whom are below poverty line.Also the Indian politicians and people should be killed,tortured,mutilated and eviscerated for their ugly behavior towards mentally ill people. I hope normal Indian people burn in hell for the horror they make their mentally ill brethren like me live in.,I don't mind being called insane or sick for what i have said but i hope India is bombed and destroyed,I will get happiness through that.

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Posted By: looniepsycho @ 02/11/2009 2:58:59 PM

I am a mentally ill person from India and i can assure you that the condition of mentally ill people is horrible in India.Ofcourse there is a lot of poverty and misery in india but there are 130 million mentally ill people.these people are shunned and hated by Indian society.they are kept in sub-human conditions in asylums chained,beaten,given electric shocks and even urinated and defecated upon.I don't think the plight for mentally ill people is any better wordlwide but in India it is sickening.As a mentally ill person myself suffering from schizophrenia i think the United Nations should put sanctions on India for inhuman treatment of it's people 80% of whom are below poverty line.Also the Indian politicians and people should be killed,tortured,mutilated and eviscerated for their ugly behavior towards mentally ill people. I hope normal Indian people burn in hell for the horror they make their mentally ill brethren like me live in.,I don't mind being called insane or sick for what i have said but i hope India is bombed and destroyed,I will get happiness through that.
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Posted By: kbanbury @ 10/21/2008 10:37:46 PM

Guadalajara is a city within the Mexican state of Jalisco.
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Posted By: copperbird7 @ 10/21/2008 4:07:47 AM

Dear god this is inhumane and criminal.