I assume “spent” isn’t meant to be a strict condition (thus someone could still be there, and not released-or deceased).
Famous People Who Spent Time in Prison*
*other than people who were primarily famous for being criminals (Al Capone, Charles Manson, etc.)
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Famous People Who Spent Time in Prison*
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Famous People Who Spent Time in Prison
He managed to get six million votes for the presidency while in prison.
Famous People Who Spent Time in Prison
Thanks for editing that. I kind of expected the next poster to do so, but it is mildly exciting that it lasted as long as it did…
Famous People Who Spent Time in Prison
Next up, creepy or semi-creepy museums/tourist attractions and why:
Stand where Lee Harvey Oswald did when he shot JFK! Imagine the scene!
The Sixth Floor Museum is actually nonsensationalist and pretty well-respected, from all I’ve read.
Creepy or semi-creepy museums/tourist attractions and why:
Something about their stiff posture and unblinking eyes - gah!: Microsoft Bing Travel
Creepy or semi-creepy museums/tourist attractions and why:
They deal in medical oddities. Things on display include Chang & Eng’s liver, Einstein’s brain, and the Soap Woman who died and was basically turned into a piece of soap after being buried in a particular type of soil.
Creepy or semi-creepy museums/tourist attractions and why:
(we visited this in 1997 and it was very cool and very creepy!)
Self explanatory, though at least two of the people I know who’ve been there recommend it completely.
Creepy or semi-creepy museums/tourist attractions and why:
Creepy or semi-creepy museums/tourist attractions and why:
No official website, but I’ve been there. It’s mentioned here.
Central State Hospital in M’ville, GA (about 100 miles from Atlanta, or 40 miles from Macon if you know GA geography) started life as the Georgia Lunatic Asylum, which started small but by the mid 20th century had become the largest mental hospital on Earth and a perfect example of The Snakepit days of mental health. Today they house a few hundred patients but they still possess the ruins of the facility that housed well over 12,000 full time and many transient patients- looks likea postapocalyptic college campus. The museum is in the old train depot (the asylum being so large it had it’s own depot) and includes things like lobotomy tools (super low tech), the wheelchair made for a 600 pound patient in the late 19th century, some of the various types of restraints used (straight jackets/manacles/other that you’re allowed to try on), an electroshock machine (also lower tech than you’d think) and hydrotherapy tub (putting patients in very cold water to shock them into lucidity), etc… Some of the creepiest things though aren’t even related to mental health but to the misogyny and racism of the late 19th/early 20th century: manuals on personnel policies, signs giving the rate of pay with unapologetically blatantly racist rates (IIRC: starting pay was $2 per day for white men/$1.50 per day for black men/$1.25 per day for white women/$1.00 per day for black women, or signs like COLORED WOMEN’S WARD. (There were also signs for the areas where Drunkards, Idiots, and Epileptics were housed.)
Trivia: some of the original orderlies were slaves rented from nearby slaveowners, and there was for a time a ward (long gone) for mentally ill slaves. Of course therapy in those days ranged from the “you just keep comfortable and tell your family to keep sending checks” from the very few wealthy to the “Snap the hell out of it!” school of cognitive treatment for the have-nots.
The old buildings have a major problem with “urban explorers” (usually harmless people who like to break in and take pictures but are a pain because of liability issues; any who are caught are arrested as trespassers). The museum, which has almost no funding and is mostly volunteer run, was opened in part to counteract that, which was a fail in that it didn’t cut down on the U.E.s (what’s the fun of just going to a museum?) but is interesting for anybody interested in the Ghosts of Mental Health Past.
Totally off topic, but just making conversation while waiting for the thread to resume, has anybody been to that bodies exhibit (can’t remember what it’s called but if you google bodies exhibit it would come up? Or to that national museum of health and medicine in D.C. where among other things General Sickles used to come have tea with his amputated leg bone? (Can’t think of what it’s called, but google national museum health medicine it would probably come up)? Or to any of these?
Not trying to influence anyone’s answer or jump-start the thread or anything, just some small talk while we wait.
Creepy or semi-creepy museums/tourist attractions and why:
It travels, but currently there are versions in NYC, Atlanta, and Las Vegas. (I went to the one in Atlanta recently- the bodies still look good for people who have been dead for a few years but they are really starting to show wear and tear.)
