Georgia's state mental asylum located in Milledgeville, Georgia, now known as the Central State Hospital (CSH), has been the state's largest facility for treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

Feb 18, 2015 · Thousands of Georgians were shipped to Milledgeville, often with unspecified conditions, or disabilities that did not warrant a classification of mental illness, with little more of a label...

It is currently a maximum secure forensics facility providing psychiatric evaluation, treatment and recovery services to people referred from Georgia State Corrections who do not require a hospital-level of care but are unable to reintegrate directly into the community.

CCCS provides intensive residential services to adults aged 18 or older with Severe and Persistent Mental Illnesses, who also may be diagnosed with Co-occurring Addictive Diseases. The Individuals served have a history of frequent psychiatric hospitalizations, incarcerations and …

Make this experience even more special by staying on the grounds of the former largest mental asylum in the world. This 1928 bungalow is a fully renovated craftsman situated on the corner of a large pecan grove, across from the Central State Hospital infirmary.

Apr 28, 2017 · However a museum on the old campus has preserved artifacts from Central State Hospital so those curious can learn what life was like at the world's largest insane asylum.

Feb 18, 2015 · Many more patients followed Mr. B., and the institution grew into the largest insane asylum in the world. A century after it opened, 200 buildings sprawled over 2,000 acres and housed up to 13,000 patients at what was then called Central State Hospital.

Feb 27, 2025 · In 1837 Georgia politicians responded by passing a bill calling for the creation of a "State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum." Located in Milledgeville, the state capital at that time, construction of the facility was completed in October 1842, and the hospital admitted its first patient later that year.

Nov 2, 2015 · "They did not want to infer that the family was coming to a prison, or to an insane asylum. That did not have a moral kind of attitude and therapy about it," said Atkins. On the edge of the pecan grove sits the Jones Building, the heart of Central State Hospital in the 1800s.

Georgia Lunatic Asylum Plaque (1883) at Central State Hospital, Milledgeville, Georgia. Abuse, Neglect and Racial Tension. At the dawn of the 20th century, overcrowding had become a major problem at the facility now renamed the Georgia State Sanitarium. By 1910, 12 …