The Carville Hospital Jail. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections, Carville, LA.

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The Carville Hospital Jail.<br /> <br /> Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections, Carville, LA.

A jail was constructed in the 1920's as a place of detention for patients who absconded (left the grounds against medical advice) and later returned to the hospital.

Often the jail served as a place of 30-day detention for the bicycles of patients who broke the rule of "no riding" in the vicinity of the dormitories reserved for blind patients.

This file appears in: Carville Jail and Cottage Grove