The asylum was quiet at night. It was an eerie quiet occasionally interrupted by a patient screaming from the electroshock machine or the torture at hands of the nurses. The lights dimmed down as the guards walked the floors with their flashlights and riot sticks checking the locked rooms. The patients were straitjacketed and strapped to their beds to ensure the safety of the staff. The Garden of Eden Women’s State Mental Hospital was home to 350 female patients deemed insane by the state, women diagnosed with ailments brought upon by chronic masturbation or hysteria. The head nurse was Tamsin Helston, a tall woman who towered over the other patients, especially in her high heels. Her ginger hair was shoulder length and her nails also an extra two inches of pointed acrylic—perfect for scratching down the legs of patients.
Nurse Helston was on duty Friday night when the hospital ambulance pulled in with a new arrival. Helston walked to the receiving area, her white uniform crisp and pristine—a short-sleeved tunic and white skirt ending just 3 inches above her knee, and her red high heels. All the patients could recognize her signature red Prada heels clacking through the halls and struck fear into their hearts. The receiving doors opened and revealed three men trying to subdue the young women strapped to the gurney.