Napa State Hospital in California, known locally as “Gomorrah”, is one of the largest forensic mental hospitals in the U.S., dedicated to treating the criminally insane. Stephen Seager, a psychiatrist, was no stranger to locked wards when he accepted a job there. Unit C, where he was assigned, was reserved for the 'bad actors', the mass murderers, serial killers and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world. In his account, it’s a place of terrible violence where both physicians and patients measure there lives by how fast they can run. Seager's gripping account of his experiences at Napa State hospital give us an extraordinary insight into a unique and terrifying world, inhabited by figures from our nightmares.
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