He never saw a lawyer or a therapist, but some think Kircoff was lucky. His sentence was extended to 28 years, nearly all of it in Farview. He hesitated at the jailhouse door the jailer gave him a shove. One inmate, Paul Kirchoff, when charged with disturbing the peace after an argument with his brother, had been sentenced to 30 days in jail. Nonfiction becomes a horror tale, "a litany of neglect, of men the world, and maybe God, had forgotten about." Treatment turns to terror, punishment is the crime, and shelter becomes a warehouse for dead storage. first wrote of the Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. Now "Cold Storage" tells the chilling story of how the State of Pennsylvania hides some of its criminally insane in a hideous corner of hell. "Snake Pit" and "Cuckoo's Nest," for example. A therapeutic society coins the most gruesome euphemisms for its monstrous failures.
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