The Blackburn Inn, formally Western State Hospital (Western State Lunatic Asylum) admitted its first patient in 1828. What started as a serene, healing place, designed by a protege of Thomas Jefferson, soon turned into a nightmare. Treatments like binding, electric shock therapy and lobotomy became the norm. Virginia’s “Eugenical Sterilization Act,” was signed into law on March 20, 1924. Dr. Joseph Dejarnette was Western State superintendent for forty years, until 1945, and he was an eager pract

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