Prisons We Have, Asylums are Scarce

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Prisons We Have, Asylums are Scarce

Bristol News – …He has been taken to Blountville Jail. Alas for the legislation of the present day. Prisons we have, but asylums are scarce. Those whose reason has been dethroned, must go to jail with our criminals…  Read More

Mr. J. Wm. Hopkins, formerly a printer of this office, but subsequently employed as such in middle Tennessee and Ky ., has recently gone deranged on the subject of religion, imagining himself called to preach, and at times that he was Jesus Christ himself. For some six months he has been living here without employment. He has been taken to Blountville Jail. Alas for the legislation of the present day. Prisons we have, but asylums are scarce. Those whose reason has been dethroned, must go to jail with our criminals.
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