mental institution
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He escaped from a mental institution, settled in Southern California, and began falsely claiming that he was a rabbi, a doctor and Albert Einstein’s nephew.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
According to the Washington Post, “Schrank died in a mental institution in 1943.”
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2024
She was incarcerated for six years, most of which she spent in prison and some of which she spent in a mental institution and in exile in a Siberian penal colony.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2024
Alli Birrenkott is one of dozens of people who discovered family members in the recently released death records for Northern State Hospital, Washington’s abandoned mental institution.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2023
After a series of mental breakdowns, she died in a mental institution at the age of sixty-five.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
