Carstairs: hospital for horrors

It is a hospital like no other. A home to patients so unpredictable they are rated too dangerous to be held even in top security prisons.

Carstairs, the State Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

A name conjuring nightmare images of terror and mystery.

It guards men with mental illnesses sent by courts in Scotland and Northern Ireland for crimes ranked among the most horrific, frightening and vile imaginable.

This book reveals how brave and dedicated nurses, doctors, and psychiatrists daily risk their lives striving to help even the most dangerously disturbed patients back on the path towards sanity.