[1] Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes Booth in response to assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was committed here after being declared insane in 1887.

[citation needed] Because there was still a great deal of doubt and uncertainty regarding the laws, sterilizations occurred at a relatively slow rate up until 1921.

This unit was closed due to budgetary constraints, and Waddell was eventually moved into the general population.

[citation needed] On February 23, 1992, Uhlrig and another therapist took Waddell and other patients off grounds to watch a movie.

Upon returning to the hospital and dropping off the other patients, Waddell attacked and killed Uhlrig, and her body was found in the bathroom in one of the buildings on the grounds.

The United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, decided on August 30, 1995 that "While Uhlrig's murder was undeniably tragic, it was not the result of reckless and "conscience shocking" conduct by the state mental health administrators sued in the instant case," thus affirming the district court's grant of the defendant's motion for "summary judgment.

[citation needed] After learning of the jury's inability to decide, the district court granted an earlier defense motion for judgment as a matter of law.

Partly because the community-based model appeared effective but mostly because it was cheaper,[citation needed] the Kansas Legislature decided to close one of its three mental hospitals.

[8] The cemetery occupies a 2.8-acre plot on the northeast corner of the old Topeka State Hospital grounds; it contains the bodies of patients buried there over a 75-year period.