The Role Of Overcrowding In Mental Prisons
These facilities were so extremely overcrowded while at the same time being understaffed. This sudden increase of individuals diagnosed as mentally ill led to massive overcrowding in most if not all the institutions. With such overcrowding, the moral treatment model became unfeasible. Asylums then switched gears from trying to cure the mentally insane to merely housing them. Patients in the mental hospitals didn't have much interaction with the outside world. They were not given reading materials or much of anything to preoccupy them other than the various chores they were assigned. In the beginning, the facilities promoted a number of various recreational activities, but eventually overcrowding made that practically impossible. The situation