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"Enthralling; it is well?worth the trip.?? --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane?incarceration facility the world had ever seen, New York?s Blackwell?s Island,?site?of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals, quickly?became, in the words of a?visiting Charles Dickens, "a lounging, listless?madhouse."?Digging through city records,?newspaper articles, and?archival reports, Stacy Horn tells a gripping narrative?through the voices of the island?s inhabitants. We also hear?from the era?s?officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated undercover?reporter Nellie Bly. And we?follow the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney?French as he ministers to Blackwell?s residents, battles the?bureaucratic?mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at?salacious trials, and in his?diary wonders about man?s inhumanity to his fellow?man.?Damnation Island?shows how far?we?ve come in caring?for the least fortunate among us?and reminds us how much?work still remains.