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Where is the abandoned Orange is the New black set?

Where is the abandoned Orange is the New black set?

Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center
Samantha Gardella from Monroe, N.Y., aligned a still from the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black” to the set located in the abandoned Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center. While some people are focused on breaking out of prison in New York, one Orange County teen was looking forward to breaking in.

What is Rockland Psychiatric Center?

Rockland Psychiatric Center provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support to adults 18 and older with serious mental illness. RPC has services at multiple levels of care, including hospital-based care, ambulatory clinic care, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams, clubhouses, transitional and other residences, and family care residences.

What is the history of the Rockland State Hospital?

The semi-abandoned Rockland Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, NY, formerly Rockland State Hospital, was one of the many asylums built during a particular time period in American history that sought, at least at first, to approach mental illness with spaciousness and tranquility.

What happened to Rockland’s Abandoned Medical Center?

Untapped Cities reader James Garcia, a filmmaker and paranormal investigator , shared his photos of the center’s abandoned complex with us. In its current state, Rockland operates only a few of the newer buildings to accommodate its less than 600 patients. The rest of its campus exhibits various forms of decay.

What was it like in a psychiatric hospital in the ’40s?

Enter electroshock therapy, pre-frontal lobotomies, and other forms of treatment that remain controversial today and have contributed to many pop culture stereotypes about psychiatric hospitals in the ’40s through the ’60s. At the start, it contained over 5,000 beds, and by 1959 was treating over 9,000 patients with around 2,000 on staff.