"For instance in West Virginia you could actually sign your wife into the insane asylum because she wasn’t being obedient to you." Electric shock therapy and lobotomies were common.

Imam Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at Cincinnati Children's hospital, was detained by ICE after his asylum status was ...

On a hot summer’s night in June 1860, the heavy door of the insane asylum clanged shut behind Elizabeth Packard and she felt all hope desert her. Because she was not mad. She was merely ...

No flowers or headstones mark the graves, just deliberately arranged rows of trees and a sign: "Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891-1943." The boy had epilepsy and died of a seizure.

In March, the DHS and DOJ published new rules for asylum claims by illegal border entrants. Overturning decades of practice, those rules allow Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers ...

Immigration. Asylum Isn't As Crazy as Trump Claims The president-elect can't tell political asylum from an insane asylum. But a little linguistic history reveals a more compelling American tradition.