Mansfield Training School, Mansfield, CT
In 1860 Connecticut School for Imbeciles at Lakeville was established. The name was changed to Connecticut Training School for Feebleminded at Lakeville in 1915 in an attempt for some sort of political correctness. In 1917, it was merged with Connecticut Colony for Epileptics in Mansfield, where the new 350-acre campus was opened under the official banner of the Mansfield Training School and Hospital.
For sixty years Mansfield Training School and Hospital was home to patients who suffered from mental afflictions. At the height of it's lifetime Mansfield boasted 50 buildings, many of which were devoted to patient care, and over 1,800 patients themselves. Like many mental healthy facilities there were allegations of maltreatment, but despite those Mansfield maintained a good reputation throughout it existence.
Due to a series of lawsuits and concerns about conditions Mansfield was closed in 1993. Some of the more dilapidated buildings were demolished, while others became part of the University of Connecticut as its Depot Campus. Another part of the original campus was annexed by the Bergin Correctional Center, a level-2 minimum security facility for male offenders. There are no current plans for the few abandoned buildings still left standing.