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Asylums then became places where there were insufficient staff and resources.

From Slate • May 11, 2022

He served in a number of offices—he was in the constitutional convention, state legislature, county commissioner in Barnwell County, Board of Regents of State Asylums, and he served two terms in the U.S.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2018

Asylums were then characterized as a method of so-called moral therapy.

From US News • May 20, 2015

His experiences there, recorded in Asylums, strongly affected his developing theories on social behavior.

From Time Magazine Archive

The founders of the Children's Aid Society early saw that the best of all Asylums for the outcast child, is the farmer's home.

From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring