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Nellie Bly

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NELLIE BLY

BY: KAYLEE & ABBI
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ELIZABETH COCHRANE

MAY 5, 1864 – JANUARY 27, 1922
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the 23-year-old convinced New York World editors to let her investigatE

CONDITIONS AT THE CITY LUNATIC ASYLUM ON BLACKWELL’S ISLAND
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“The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat trap,”

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“IT IS EASY TO GET IN, BUT ONCE THERE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET OUT.”

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BLACKWELL ISLAND

Opened as America’s first municipal mental hospital in 1839
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WAS MEANT TO BE A STATE-OF-THE-ART INSTITUTION COMMITTED TO MORAL, HUMANE REHABILITATION

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It ended up as a scary asylum, staffed by inmates of a nearby penitentiary

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Two days later, the paper ran the first installment of Bly’s story, entitled “Behind Asylum Bars.”

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