Mental Institutions in the 1800's:
The Rights of the patients, and the Responsibility of the staff to protect those rights.
When mental institutions first originated patients were treated as human beings who were actually sick but as time passed and institutions became overcrowded, that all changed. Mental hospitals that were once a place of protection and security became a place of fear and mistreatment. The human rights of the patients were violated in the most horrible of ways with things such as lobotomies, overcrowding, starvation, and abuse. These institutions were no longer safe places to recover but places one was sent to be rid of any strange quality or behavior they might have. The staff had a responsibility to take care of the patients to the best of their ability yet as overcrowding of the institutions pursued, the staff became tired of this responsibility and began slacking in their duties of protection and it was then that the patients rights began to be violated.