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Image by Jack’s LOST FILM The Crownsville Hospital Center is a former psychiatric hospital located in Crownsville, Maryland. It was in operation from 1911 to 2004. History The facility was enabled by an act of the Maryland General Assembly on 11 April 1910 as the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland. This act also explicitly specified that the facility should not be located in Baltimore. On 13 December, 1910 the Board of Managers purchased farm land located at Crownsville, Maryland for the sum of ,000 which had formerly been farmed for willow and tobacco. On 23 May 1910 Dr. Robert Winterode was designated the first Superintendent. The facility was founded following a 1908 report of "The Maryland State Lunacy Commission" which stated: " It is with a feeling of shame and humiliation that the conditions which exist in the State among the negro insane are chronicled and known to the public. Righteous indignation cannot help being aroused when one sees or reads of the most horrible cruelties being practiced upon these unfortunates…. The most urgent need at this time is a hospital for the negro insane of Maryland…." As early as 1899 the Maryland Lunacy Commission in its Annual Report stated "At present there are no negro insane at the second hospital (Springfield) and the comparatively small number at Spring Grove is a distinct embarrassment to the institution." Again in its 1900 report it stated:
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"The condition of the negro insane at Montevue Hospital at Frederick is shameful and should at once be remedied. The beasts of the field are better cared for than the poor negroes at Montevue." The first group of 12 patients arrived at Crownsville on 13 March 1911. Patients lived in a work camp located in a willow curing house adjacent to one of the willow ponds. Winterode worked with them to prepare roads and to harvest the tobacco and willow crops on the property. Additional patients were transferred in July and Sept. 1911. Construction started on the first large building, A Building in Oct. 1912. Patients were used to work on the construction of the hospital in addition to working in its day to day functions. As reported in the State Lunacy Commission Report of Dec. 1912, patients worked as "hod carriers" and assistants to electricians and plumbers. Construction necessitated that they push "barrows of concrete up a tramway three and a half stories in height." They excavated "10000 cubic yards of earth in about 10 weeks." In addition they unloaded 238 cars of cement, stone and other building materials. "The laundry work for the patients is done by two adult males and an epileptic imbecile 10 years of age who has been taught to feed the ringer (sic) and at which he has become quite adept. During the past year (1912) these three have washed and ironed over 40,000 pieces." Within a short time smallpox and scarlet fever struck the patients. Water quality was also cited as a problem in those early years. Tuberculosis was a constant threat and is mentioned in the annual reports of those early years because there was no real provision for the isolation of the patients except in the summer months when there was a temporary open building for them. According to the Annual and Biennial Report of the State Lunacy Commission 1914-1915 in the section on Crownsville Hospital it was reported that "The percentage of deaths based upon admissions (268 patients) was 38.43. The percentage of deaths calculated upon admissions due to tuberculosis was 29.85. The percentage of deaths based upon average attendance was 32.21." Tuberculosis remained a problem for many years. It was not until 1939 that the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene announced: "The opening at Springfield State Hospital of a separate building for the care of mental patients suffering from tuberculosis is one of the outstanding achievements of 1939. In this building all patients from Spring Grove, Springfield and Eastern Shore State Hospital who are suffering from tuberculosis and who represent a danger to other patients or who need special treatment will be cared for." Excluded from this new, active treatment program at the all-white Springfield Hospital Center were the African-American Crownsville TB patients. On 29 Oct. 1915, two hundred Baltimore City patients were transferred from Bay View (now Johns Hopkins Hospital). This transfer was made in five special railway cars. In 1920, with a patient census of 521, there were two physicians, including the superintendent. There were also 17 nurses and attendants, 1 social worker and 18 other help. The data from the 1920 U.S. Census report has the average age of Crownsville patients at 42 years. The youngest was 14 years and there were three patients in their eighties. In the occupations’ section of the report 68% were listed as holding hospital job assignments. Therapies initially included hydrotherapy and sedatives. In the 1930s insulin shock was introduced. Malaria treatment in which patients were infected with malaria pathogins was begun in 1942. As many as twenty patients at a time were inoculated. According to the 1948 Annual Report when
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Crownsville had about 1800 patients,103 patients received shock treatments, 56 patients received malaria/penicillin treatments and 33 received a lobotomy. During the years when lobotomies were a common procedure, Dr. Morgenstern, the Crownsville Superintendent, was opposed to them. In his 1950 Annual Report, he said that Crownsville has "very few lobotomies". He also expressed his opposition to the trend "to rely upon this operation to make the institutional case more manageable". In a report of March 1954, the Superintendent stated that lobotomies were not being done. According to a Jan. 1947 report on medical care in Maryland, the normal occupancy of private and public mental hospital beds was 7,453. Of these, only Crownsville had African American patients in its 1044 occupied beds as of August 1946. Hospital conditions deteriorated markedly in the 1940s due to overcrowding and staff shortages. The staffing of the wards during the period of World War II was very inadequate. In a letter of May 22, 1945 to the State’s Governor from the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene, he said: "A few nights ago at Crownsville in the division which houses ninety criminal, insane men there was one employee on duty." A "Confidential Report to the Board of Mental Hygiene in Regard to Present Conditions in State Hospitals" (Nov. 14, 1944) stated that Crownsville was 30% over its capacity in contrast to the two large hospitals for white patients which were 11.6% and 11% over capacity. That same report documented that for the preceding five year period, the average number of deaths per 1,000 patients was 102 at Crownsville in contrast to 59-60 for the two large hospitals serving white patients. The report also mentioned a problem relating to the availability of clothes for the "feebleminded" patients of Crownsville: "Some serious problems relating to supplies have occurred so that on one recent occasion some 25 patients in the Division for the "Feebleminded" were found on inspection to be completely without clothes." In a memo of 2 Nov. 1944 to the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene (Dr. Preston), a visitor to the Division for the Feebleminded at Crownsville described his experiences. After praising the appearance of the girls’ ward, he described the boys’ ward as follows: "The boys side was very dirty, the boys themselves, the dormitories and dayroom. Sitting at dinner were twenty seven boys completely nude, most of them spilling food all over themselves. There was on that day only one attendant on the boys’ side who was definitely working hard." The Baltimore Sun paper’s articles on Maryland’s mental health system were published in 1948-1949 under the title "MARYLAND’S SHAME’. Following are statements from the articles relating to Crownsville: "More than 1800 men, women and children are herded into its buildings meant for not more than 1,100" "Crownsville is also the dumping ground for feeble minded negro children and epileptics." "The children’s buildings are among the most crowded in the institution." "One hundred and fifteen girls spend most of their days in a single, long bare play room with virtually nothing to play with." "There are so few attendants that the older girls have to carry the helpless ones bodily to and from meals." "Not one of the more than 200 boys and girls at Crownsville is getting any formal schooling at all." "Some of the epileptics lie all day on the bare floor."
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In 1929 there were 55 discharges from Crownsville but 92 deaths. The census began to rise dramatically until it peaked in 1955 at 2719 patients. The staff of Crownsville Hospital had been all white until 1948. Through the 1940s the NAACP had advocated for the hiring of African-American staff but encountered resistance from the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene. Finally, in 1948, the new superintendent of Crownsville hired the first African-American staff member, Vernon Sparks, in the Psychology Department. Gwendolyn Lee was hired later in the Social Work Department. The Crownsville Superintendent still was not permitted to hire African-American staff in direct care positions. This would not happen until 1952. By 1959, 45% of Crownsville’s staff was African-American, in contrast to 6%-8% in the other large state mental hospitals. The adolescent patient population was integrated in 1962 and the adult population in 1963. An earlier integration attempt had been made in Dec. 1954 when the Crownsville Superintendent transferred 15 children ages 2–6 years from Crownsville to the all white Rosewood State Training School. The Superintendent of Crownsville was threatened with a reprimand by the Commissioner of Mental Health and resigned the next year (1955). Industrial therapy (unpaid work) was an important part of life at Crownsville. In the Spring of 1958, more than 600 patients had work assignments in more than 55 placements, which included "dental assistant," "receptionist," "librarian" and "hospital aide." Work was considered to be part of therapy and "patients unable or unwilling to participate were considered too ill to enjoy the privilege of freedom of the grounds." Staff shortages were always a problem. In 1953, the Superintendent, Dr. Eichert, reported that in "A" Building there were 560 patients and four attendants in the evening and four in the day. In the Baltimore Sunpaper of June 1953, there was given a description of the "old ward for highly disturbed women": "Here are truly the creatures of the dark. The sickest ones are kept in a room as forbidding as a dungeon, where they live in a state of odorous untidiness, many of them refusing to wear clothes.Twice a day a bucket and two cups are brought to the door, to give the inmates a drink. There are 78 patients here and 28 beds. These and other patients on the same floor – a total of 96 – have the use of three toilets, three wash basins and one tub. They cannot be bathed daily because it was explained, hot water is not available every day." In a letter to the Maryland Governor of 23 June 1952, the Chairman of the Mental Hygiene Board of Review asked: "Why is less being done relatively to relieve the distressing overcrowding at Crownsville than at any of the other institutions or why this institution is allowed a patient per capita cost of 85; an amount less than any of the other hospitals; fifty percent less than two of them…?" In a letter to a Johns Hopkins Hospital social worker of 3 Dec.,1956, Dr. Ralph Meng, the Crownsville Superintendent, expressed his concern that community agencies were not willing to accept their responsibilities in providing services to discharged Crownsville patients. He said: "Just as a guess, I would think that about 40% of our patients could be handled without
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hospitalization if anybody made an effort to do so." Elsie Lacks (born Lucille Elsie Pleasant), second born and eldest daughter of Henrietta Lacks, who was the source of the famous HeLa cell line, was institutionalized here for epilepsy until she died in 1955 at the age of 15.[1] In 1964, the first African-American Superintendent, Dr. George Mck. Phillips, was appointed. Dr. Phillips established a day treatment program and a school mental health outreach program in addition to supporting the mental health clinics in Baltimore and the Southern Maryland Counties. Patients in Crownsville clinics were given free medication. There were established training programs in psychiatry, psychology, social work, dance therapy and pastoral counseling. Crownsville had an active foreign students’ program for those in medicine, social work and psychology. In the ten years prior to its closing, it hosted students from Israel, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Turkey and Chile. The Hospital also trained Spanish speaking therapists when that need was identified. The hospital staff was well known for its outspoken resistance to the pressures to place patients in public shelters with the resulting "dumping" of patients onto the streets and into the jails. Improvements in psychiatric treatment, rigid admission policies and better funding of outpatient treatment and residential services resulted in the hospital’s census declining to 200 patients by the year 2000. The hospital grounds became the central county site for many social, school and health programs and the hospital finally closed in July 2004. Those patients in need of further psychiatric hospitalization were transferred to two of Maryland’s remaining hospitals. Its original buildings are still standing and today portions of the campus are occupied by various tenants. The site is also the location of Crownsville Hospital’s patient cemetery. This historic site was rededicated in 2004. Approximately 1,600 patients are buried in graves marked by numbers only, with the more recent having patient names. Information on Crownsville Hospital can be found in the Maryland State Archives Collections, which contains reference materials from the Hospital, the Auxiliary, Paul Lurz and Doris Morgenstern Wachsler. References Primary sources referenced in this article, unless otherwise noted with in-line citations: Reports of The Maryland State Lunacy Commission in the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, Maryland. "Materials Towards a History of Crownsville" in a collection donated by Doris Morgenstern Wachsler located at the Maryland State Archives. VOYEURISM … Malone says her phone company didn’t help her (June 20, 2011) …item 3.. UPDATE] Video Voyeur Accused of “Up-Skirting” Dozens of Women — He is facing 86 misdemeanors and five felonies. (Feb 15, 2012) …
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Image by marsmet501 Malone was a victim of cramming — unauthorized charges that mysteriously appear on monthly phone bills. The FCC estimates Malone is one of 20 million Americans who’ve been schemed that way. .
……..***** All images are copyrighted by their respective authors …….. . …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… . …..item 1)…. digtriad.com … powered by WFMY News … FCC Cracking Down On ‘Cramming’ 11:51 PM, Jun 20, 2011 Written by Cami Marshall FILED UNDER National & World www.digtriad.com/news/national/article/180077/175/FCC-Cra… Undated — The Federal Communications Commission is cracking down on ‘cramming’. Obviously, we’re not talking about pulling an all-nighter in hopes of acing your college finals. It’s a term used for unauthorized fees on your cell phone bill. And it’s possible you’ve paid them – without even knowing it. Samantha Malone opened her cell phone bill and discovered she’d been charged for a game
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she never ordered. "I saw a charge I think it was for .99 and I didn’t ever remember subscribing to anything that would warrant that charge." Malone was a victim of cramming — unauthorized charges that mysteriously appear on monthly phone bills. The FCC estimates Malone is one of 20 million Americans who’ve been schemed that way. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said, "The charges can be for voice mail or long distance that the consumer didn’t request." The charges usually range from .99 to .99, but only about 5% of consumers realize they’re being ripped off because the fees are hard to spot. Regulators are now working on new rules to crack down on the problem, and they’re setting up a tip sheet that will be available on www.fcc.gov to help people recognize and report suspicious charges. Genachowski said, "You can call a third party charge, that number should be on the bill, or call your phone company." Consumers should ask questions like: Do I recognize the names of all of the companies listed on my bill? Are there charges for calls I did not place or products or services I did not authorize? Are the rates I am being charged consistent with the rates I signed up for? If you need help resolving your dispute, you can contact the FCC at www.fcc.gov/complaints, or call 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322). Malone says her phone company didn’t help her, but her credit card company resolved the problem. Last week, the FCC recommended more than million in fines against four companies: Main Street Telephone, VoiceNet Telephone, LLC, Cheap2Dial Telephone, LLC., and Norristown Telephone, LLC. They’re all accused of billing tens of thousands of consumers for unauthorized charges.
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……………………………………. . . …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… . …..item 3)…. WCTV NEWS … www.wctv.tv/home/headlines … Updated: 7:40 AM Feb 15, 2012 [UPDATE] Video Voyeur Accused of "Up-Skirting" Dozens of Women Tallahassee man facing more than 90 new charges, police say his computer contained ‘beneath the skirt’ videos of women at stores all over town Posted: 9:22 AM Feb 14, 2012 Reporter: Julie Montanaro Email Address: julie.montanaro@wctv.tv [UPDATE] Video Voyeur Accused of "Up-Skirting" Dozens of Women 2-14 Noon Video Voyeurism? Man Arrested for Grocery Cart Camera www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Video_Voyeurism_Man_Arrested_f… UPDATED 2.14.2012 6:30pm by Julie Montanaro A Tallahassee man is accused of secretly videotaping beneath the skirts of dozens of women. Charles Korst was initially arrested for an incident at the Publix sushi counter. A review of his computer hard drive revealed 88 "up-skirt" videos and court records indicate one of them is of a girl as young as 10. Police went to Charles Korst’s home in search of a camera. They found an external hard drive taped to the back of his dresser. On it, they say, were dozens of videos that showed women’s faces and the view beneath their skirts. "It’s shocking and it’s violating," said shopper Jessica Koon. "I I come here all the time, run in, run out, and would have never suspected anybody of doing anything like that." "I think it’s outrageous for someone to want do something so egregious as to look up someone’s dress," said fellow shopper Tongy Rodriguez. "Get him off the street." Arrest papers show Korst "skirted the law’ most often at Publix, but investigators say there were
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shoppers at Best Buy, Target, Wal Mart, Home Depot and Bed Bath and Beyond who were captured on tape by the accused video voyeur. Perhaps the most shocking? Arrest papers say at least two of the victims were children under 16. Court papers show Korst followed a young teen in Home Depot for more than 16 minutes taking at least 8 shots beneath her skirt and even removing the camera from the basket to get a full body shot. The other young victim is estimated to be between 10 and 12 years old. That video appears to be taken in the toy aisle at Wal Mart. "He wouldn’t have been lasting long in the aisles had I seen somebody trying to do something like that. I think people need to pay more attention to their kids," said shopper Brian Durham, "and people need to pay attention to the surroundings." Arrest papers say some of the video clips even include full or partial views of Korst’s own face. Most of the videos were taken between February and October of 2011. Korst is accused of videotaping as many as six women in one day. Police also found what they say are three pornographic pictures of young children on Korst’s computer hard drive. He is facing 86 misdemeanors and five felonies. His bond is set at ,000. Korst’s attorney had no comment on the most recent charges. ——————————————————————— UPDATED 2.14.2012 9:30am by Julie Montanaro A Tallahassee man arrested for video voyeurism last month is now facing dozens of new charges. Charles Korst is facing 86 new charges of video voyeurism (misdemeanors), two counts of video voyeurism on a child under 16 (felonies) and three counts of possession of child pornography (felonies). Prosecutor Jon Fuchs says the charges were filed after a review of Korst’s computer hard drive. He says there were even more videos on the computer, but he pressed charges only for videos that showed beneath women’s skirts or showed women’s undergarments. Fuchs says the videos appear to be taken at stores all over town, including Home Depot, Walmart and Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Korst was arrested last month outside the Lake Ella Publix after a woman reported he was using
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a camera in his grocery basket to try to film up her skirt. Korst is slated to make an appearance before a judge this morning. Fuchs says investigators do not beleive Korst created the images of child pornography. He says those appear to be downloaded images. ————————————————————– January 10, 2011 by Julie Montanaro A Tallahassee man is accused of stashing a camera in his grocery basket and trying to take pictures beneath a woman’s skirt. He was caught and we soon discovered this was not his first venture time. It happened at the Lake Ella Publix just after noon on Monday. TPD arrest papers say a woman at the sushi counter first noticed a man’s handheld grocery basket brushing up against her leg. She didn’t want it to snag her pantyhose, arrest papers say, so she moved. Then it happened again and when she turned around she noticed a camera in the corner of his basket "with the lens extended." Tallahassee Police arrested Charles Korst in the parking lot soon afterward on charges of video voyeurism. "I find it shocking that someone would even do such a thing honestly. I’m just glad that the woman ran him off and he was caught," said Publix shopper Anna Smith. A check of Leon County court records shows Korst has been arrested for voyeurism seven times. Most of them are misdemeanors and they date back to 2004. WCTV did a story on him in 2006 when he was accused of taking pictures of women in the fitting room at Target. Court records indicate that over the years he’s done 10 days in jail, been on probation, done community service and even entered a treatment program. This time, he’s charged with a felony. "It makes you angry that he hasn’t learned his lesson. So maybe we need to teach him a lesson," shopper Connie Walberg said as she loaded groceries into her car. "The authorities definitely need to know where he’s at all the time. There’s no telling what this guy is capable of doing. It may lead to something else," shopper Steven Walker said. Korst was released from jail on 00 bond. His attorney Bill Davis says he does not comment on a pending case and has no comment on Korst’s past run ins with the law.
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Latest Comments Posted by: Brandon Location: Tally on Feb 15, 2012 at 02:09 PM You know even going through felony arrests on WCTV it seems you see at least one sexual predator a week if not more. I think spending taxpayers dollars would be a good idea in these cases. No, not for the jail time, but see that every sexual predator never has the chance to do anything stupid again. Make them unics, nothing there, nothing to think about or try doing….. Posted by: Robert on Feb 15, 2012 at 12:02 PM I’m proud of my Scottish blood and sometimes where a kilt. If he filmed under my kilt then I hope it doesn’t end up on a Gay website or revealed in court. Posted by: Just a guy Location: Tally on Feb 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM How about LE let this guy loose in a pin with all the women that he has taken pictures off.. That way all parties get what they want.. the guy with a bunch of women, and the women get their justice….. just let these ladies beat him up…so we don’t have to spend more tax payers money.
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