Decades-old photographs reveal the harsh realties women were faced with while living in 's only all-female mental hospital in the 70s - after an award-winning journalist bunked with the patients for weeks to offer the portrayal.Snapped in 1976 by the late Mary Ellen Mark, the images offer a unique glimpse of female psychiatric life during the decade, by documenting the lives of women locked in the maximum-security ward at Oregon State Hospital at the time.The all-female wing, called Ward 81, would close a year later to make way for a more modern facility, leaving Mark's images to serve as a sort of time capsule - rife with emotional images showing the women's lives during their incarceration.
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