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 Spike
    
Location: New Zealand
Gender: Male
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 |  | The Templeton Centre (psychiatric hospital)
< on 7/22/2010 8:44 PM >
|  | | | The Templeton Centre, provided a rural location, which was isolated from the able-bodied society. The location socially excluded children with intellectual disabilities, as a means to protect the able-bodied population from the alleged dangers of the disabled. Also, the state sought to protect children with intellectual disabilities from the suspicion and hostility of the able-bodied society. Sad but true those are a few lines from the then "department of mental health and hygiene" in regard to the hospital.
The hospital itself and all it's out buildings are set up like a small township, with normal width roads, stop and give way (Yield in the US) sign and bus stops, most of the buildings have been left to rot into the ground, whilst others have been mutilated by police and tactical assault teams for training purposes.
All but about three of the buildings are still in use, and we saw a couple of vehicles come and go whilst we were there.
1. Main corridor of the large central dorm
2. Looking down towards the 2nd wing of the central dorm
3. Stairs in the central dorm
4. Police planning their training
5. Kitchen for central dorm
6. Central dorm between kitchen and lounge area
7. Looking across to the 2nd wing central dorm
8. 99% of the damage in here is from the cops!
9. Outside central dorm 2nd wing
10. Maintenance yard and garaging
11. Auditorium
12. in between the wings of the central dorm
13. Diesel powered furnace
14. the fire station (sadly no fire engine was in it)
15. Layout of the facility
16. obligatory lonely chair photo
17. some police left overs....they were EVERYWHERE along with about a million spent 9mm rounds and smoke grenades
18. one of the stand alone dorms, of which 3 remain, totally self sufficient even had their own heating so sadly no steam tunnels...
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amandie
Location: South Brook, Newfoundland
Gender: Female
| | Re: The Templeton Centre (psychiatric hospital)
<Reply # 1 on 8/4/2010 5:58 AM >
|  | | | very interesting, when did this place close? hard to believe that there were places like this and that those who have intellectuals disabilities were not a part of the main stream society.
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Spike
Location: New Zealand
Gender: Male
Rapid Canvas Therapy
| | Re: The Templeton Centre (psychiatric hospital)
<Reply # 2 on 8/4/2010 9:37 AM >
| | | | Thankyou  it closed in 1997, but being so far from the city there is almost no tagging, just destruction from the cops, yeah I can;t even imagine what went on at these places, this place had the typical stories of abuse and patient mistreatment, people being locked in cupboards for bad behavior etc
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Sewer Urchin
Very poisonous, don't touch me.
| | Re: The Templeton Centre (psychiatric hospital)
<Reply # 3 on 8/4/2010 1:51 PM >
| | | | It's wonderful that these facilities are no longer the default way to handle people with minor cognitive and mental deficiencies. However, when these institutions fell our of favor, they almost all closed, and now there are almost none left for people who do need them, often forcing them far from home or not to recieve proper treatment.
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Spike
Location: New Zealand
Gender: Male
Rapid Canvas Therapy
| | Re: The Templeton Centre (psychiatric hospital)
<Reply # 4 on 8/4/2010 8:04 PM >
| | | | Posted by Sewer Urchin
It's wonderful that these facilities are no longer the default way to handle people with minor cognitive and mental deficiencies. However, when these institutions fell our of favor, they almost all closed, and now there are almost none left for people who do need them, often forcing them far from home or not to recieve proper treatment.
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Yup we had an incident like that here, when this facility closed,
'The most infamous criminal case concerning a ex-Templeton Centre resident, involved ******. ****** had spent most of his life at the Templeton Centre, until he reached his early 20s, when he was then placed into the community, ****** allegedly had the mental age of an 11-year old and doubts were expressed by Templeton Centre personnel about his ability to function in the community.
******, aged 30, became a prominent figure in the gay community for both his obvious intellectual disability and his willingness to engage in anonymous sex with men at public places. Unfortunately, ****** had been a HIV carrier since May 1991.'
This is where the system failed people, people who really needed help were just let out into the community to try and fend for themselves.
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