Description Ten Days in A Madhouse is the true account of investigative journalist Nellie Bly\'s confinement inside an insane asylum.
In the 1880s the mentally insane were not treated as patients but as.
The asylum was underfunded, grossly overcrowded, and plagued with scandal.
In 1887 the young female reporter entered the asylum under the guise of insanity to investigate rumors of brutality and neglect at the infamous Blackwell\'s Island Insane Asylum in New York City.
Description Ten Days in A Madhouse is the true account of investigative journalist Nellie Bly\'s confinement inside an insane asylum