Stacy Horn
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Stacy Horn

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In the 19th century, New York City’s poor, insane, sick and punishable were thrown together and warehoused on the same narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River. It didn’t go well. I spent a few years researching just what went on in the insane asylum, prisons and hospitals there, but it was quite a challenge. Most of the records were destroyed. I lucked out here and there however, like coming across diaries from former wardens, and prison records thought to be lost. My new book Damnation Island reads like a horror story, but it’s all true.

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    • Damnation Island

    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • Written by: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release Date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
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