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
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
Dot does that many times over throughout the season, even slipping free of the mental institution where Lorraine tries to have her committed against her will.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2024
Brought up on the grounds of a mental institution where her psychiatrist father was assistant superintendent, Smith grew up accepting eccentricity in herself as well as in her surroundings.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024
Her only remaining son, Robert, had her committed to a mental institution in 1875.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
