Mental hospitals have and will always be a necessary evil. Because they are so easily corrupted and become places of horrors, yet when kept from getting too awful they are miles better for both society and the mentally ill than simply leaving them to their own devices.

The answer to the abuses and madness that ran rampant through the 1900s wasn't just throwing up our hands and giving up entirely, but that's what we did and now we are filling society with people who are clearly in need of something but we have nothing we can do for them.