mental institution

Example Sentences

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All this, and the ensuing negative publicity, embarrassed Robert, who successfully brought suit to have his mother committed to a mental institution.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 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

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

Her adoptive father was schizophrenic and for a time lived at Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry, a sprawling mental institution that was later closed by court order because it inhumanely “warehoused” its patients.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove