The insane asylum on Blackwell\'s Island is a human rat-trap.
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Her story is just as remarkable today as it was shen she wrote it.
After her release she wrote a shocking expose called Ten Days in a Madhouse, launching her career as a world-famous investigative reporter and helping to improve conditions at mental institutions across the United States.
Twenty-three-year-old journalist Nellie Bly, describing New York City\'s most notorious mental institution, wrote those words in 1887 after getting herself committed to the asylum.
It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
The insane asylum on Blackwell\'s Island is a human rat-trap