CAMARILLO STATE HOSPITAL COURTYARD HOMEPAGE

Camarillo State Hospital was the most famous psychiatric institution in California's history. This website is intended to preserve a part of that history for the general public and for CSH employees in particular.

Camarillo State Hospital - Circa 1950

Camarillo State Hospital - Circa 1997

"We didn't de-institutionalize, we RE-institutionalized. The jails and prisons are the largest mental health facilities in the country. You can get money for prisons. You can't get money for mental health."

Rosalynn Carter on The Daily Show, 5-04-10

WELCOME

The staff at Camarillo State Hospital were a tightly knit community. I hope that this website will provide a resource for them to remember people who were friends, and often family, as well as the place that brought them together. I further hope that other guests, including former patients, will find it interesting and informative. Visitors are encouraged to email any images, news, or information they wish to add to the website. For this or for any other assistance please email me at:

www.surfjones@roadrunner.com or: alanhndrsn@yahoo.com 

Alan Henderson

WHAT'S NEW:

8 - 22-2010: 'Staff 6' Page - Photo added of former employee Jim Turnipseed O.T.

7 - 3 - 2010: 'News' Page - Obituary of Twalley 'Faye' Baysinger added

7 - 3 - 2010: 'Staff 11' Page - Photo of Psychiatric Technician Apprenticeship Class of 1991 added. Images of the Program for the 1991 PTA Graduation ceremonies added 

Former CSH employee Kathy Swart at Lewis Rd. entrance - circa 1981 - photo courtesy of Kathy Swart

CSH Power Plant

RT Building roof

R.T. Building central hallway

Aerial Of CSH circa 1997

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