McNeil Island
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McNeil Island is an island in the Northwestern United States, in south Puget Sound southwest of Tacoma, Washington. With a land area of 6.63 square miles, it lies in an area of many inhabited small is
Aerial image of McNeil Island (foreground) seen from the east
McNeil Island Prison c. 1890
McNeil Island from Steilacoom
McNeil Island Penitentiary in 1937
Involuntary commitment
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Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, or involuntary hospitalization/hospitalisation, or informally in Great Britain sectioning, being sectioned, commitment, or being committed, is a legal process
McNeil Island
…low-risk inmates were integrated into other state prisons. The prison officially closed on April 1, 2011. As of October 2018 the population was 214, all civilly committed former prison inmates. While the prison was operational, the island had a population well over a thousand residents (1,516 as of the 2000 census), the…
Lord Shaftesbury, a vigorous campaigner for the reform of lunacy law in England, and the Head of the Lunacy Commission for 40 years.