I've had the honor of knowing someone - someone rather extraordinary - once dubiously confined to Marcy State Hospital. The stories I've heard influenced a bit

I've had the honor of knowing someone - someone rather extraordinary - once dubiously confined to Marcy State Hospital. The stories I've heard influenced a bit of feeble research on my part which chanced upon James Bailey Silkman, a prisoner of the closely related Utica Asylum. Depending on one's perception (or fetish) of one's domination over another, the story is a rare victory over such a terrible nightmare. Silkman went on, after his liberation from that hive of arbitrary illness, to apply his legal talents toward freeing others wrongfully held captive there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bailey_Silkman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bailey_Silkman