In 1887 her assignment for the New York World was an expose of the insane asylum on Blackwell's Island
[DOC] [TLE] Ten Days in a Mad-House - Digital Library Project [PAR] SINCE my experiences in Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum were published ... 
have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with ..... 
Another woman always kept going to sleep and waking herself up with her ...