History of Pennsylvania's state hospitals 

My grandfather was in Torrence from 1949 to 1975.

Micheal my brother had issues all his life, in first grade the school district or teachers union decided he was to hard to manage because of his AHAD, Epilepsy, and being partially brain damaged due to having seizures. He was forced to be enrolled in a program called 20/20 at the Allentown state hospital were he lived and went to school between 80-83 only getting to come home every other weekend. On one of these weekends he was supposed to come home we were out of town and weren't able to pick him as usual. One of their staff members decided they didn't want to work that weekend and drove him over 60 miles to our home in Dingmans Ferry and with nobody home, left him there. By the grace of God he was able to break a basement window and crawl in and fend for himself for a couple days until we got home, I don't remember how we found out but I remember my mom getting a speeding ticket in Ohio trying to get home. They also prescribed medication that ended up deadly when mix with his regular medication and if it wasn't for our dad giving him CPR in our living he would have died. I found out years later our dad had an opportunity to get involved in a lawsuit against the state hospital but declined to do so. After he did his time there our dad said he had gotten worst because someone had to hover over him to get him to do anything. A few years after his time, I got interested in Billy Joel music and every time Piano Man came on he would freak out he told me hated that song because his whole time there that's all they played in the halls in-between classes. He passed away November 5, 1990 with leukemia.

I love mental Hospital. Mr. X

Trying to find info on 30's - 60's ,Warren State Hospital,Warren,Pa . My Grandmother was there during that time. I know she worked in the laundry. Her name was Neva Leonard Neal. I heard that criminals were put right in with General population... rapists, Psychopaths, etc. I believe she may have been lobotomized because her brother told me she didn't remember she had 3 children. One was born there and taken home by my Grandfather who put her there.