re: Carville leper colony

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Pineville is a hospital for people with special needs. Some maybe insane but most are individuals with varying degrees of mental retardation. It's actually a beautiful campus.

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I had to do some IT related work there around 2010. That whole place gave me the creeps. The campus was laid out in several different buildings holding patients with different levels of mental disabilities. Most, as you said, were severly retarded, many to the extent of doing nothing but drooling and making incoherent noises. They told us to just ignore them and go along with our work as quickly as possible. There was one building that they wouldn't allow to go into, citing safety concerns. I have no idea how people can work in an environment such as that everyday. There isn't enough money in the world for me to do that.