The shocking conditions of detention of psychiatric patients in Indonesia

In Indonesia - mental illness is the subject taboo. Such people do not remember. And talk about them in "polite society" is generally considered bad form.

Mother trying to fuse the mentally ill people in the hospital who are more like a prison.

New York photographer specially flew to Indonesia to make a series of images that shocked the world.

Agus sings in its cage in the shape of a concrete cube. Once he tried to escape. Now, do not let him out of it at all.

Evie. Hallucinations began in her 10 years. Her parents paid for the wooden bed in hospital and released her forever. Now she sits on the chain.

Shot from an ordinary day in the hospital. Men and women are separated by bars.

Mohammed (left) heals a woman. Days and nights, the patient drinks tea made of special herbs. She was not allowed to eat. In the end, she falls into a hypnotic trance (most likely from the frenzy).

Annie is in the hospital for 10 years. In her room there is a small window at the top, where penetrates a little daylight, and she can see a small piece of heaven.

Single cell patients:

food deficit, and sometimes simply its absence, affects the health and physical condition of patients.

In Saymuna wooden prosthesis. He's 40 years old. He can not speak and lives with his older brother, who is mentally ill.

The guards at the hospital are particularly cruel, if someone of the patients did not obey orders. Seapudin (right) is chained to this piece of wood has been 9 years, for what once tried to escape. His legs are simply deformed and atrophied muscles due to its uselessness.

Patients are kept in really frightening conditions.

Hospitals do not receive funding from the government and are forced to survive in other ways.

The families of some patients to pay hospitals for additional services such as a shower, massage, etc.