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Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. Wheelchair-bound patients at the Ocaranza Psychiatric Hospital.

Mexico City, Mexico, 1999. A patient, whose single uttered word is 'Adios,' clasps his head in pain.

Mexico City, Mexico, 1999. A patient at the Casa de Proteccion presses against the locked door.

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. At the Ocaranza psychiatric hospital, a 17 year old, who has been temporarily freed from a straitjacket, swallows her whole hand. The girl's only acknowledged therapy is to place her hands under a heat lamp for fifteen…

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. At the Ocaranza psychiatric hospital, a 17 year old, who had been abandoned as an infant outside a church, is momentarily freed from a straitjacket she is confined in twenty hours a day.

Guadalajara, Mexico, 1999. In the children's ward of the Jalisco facility, children are housed with adults, tethered to the bars of their cells, and covered with flies.

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. Many of the people in Mexican institutions are labeled 'abandonados' because they no longer have family or a place to go. Mentally ill or not, they remain here for life.

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. Believed to be 70 or 80 years old, this woman is one of many elderly Ocaranza patients exhibiting symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. At the Ocaranza psychiatric institute, female attendants pour buckets of ice-cold water on the male patients. There are no towels; the air temperature is 48 degrees Farenheit.

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. At the Ocaranza psychiatric institute, female attendants pour buckets of ice-cold water on the male patients. There are no towels; the air temperature is 48 degrees Farenheit.