Tales from the Nuthouse: Lest You Think I have a Really Suck Job

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Tomorrow (Thursday) morning, I am going to get to take a tour of the Forensic building that is down the street from my hospital. It's a specialty prison unit for the Criminally Insane.

I did take a tour there 15 or so years ago, but at that time we weren't permitted on any of the occupied units. They just put us all in a ward room that was part of an unoccupied unit that was being renovated.

I don't think they have anybody notable there right now, but a few years ago they housed John DuPont while he was awaiting trial (he was considered too high security for us ... ordinarily we get Delaware County Prisoners who are mentally ill), and I believe that Sylvia Segrist ended up there after the Springfield Mall Shooting in the 1980s.

I wasn't even aware that they were going to allow a tour ... one of my cow orkers who moved into our Criminal Justice Department called me the other night because he thought I'd be interested and he saved me a slot. They're only letting ten people in, apparently.