When the state labeled Marina Couture “feeble-minded,” it was the start of a decades-long sentence — poverty, family rejection, and a brutal system that refused to let go. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on a hidden chapter of Rhode Island’s institutional history, tracing Marina’s journey from mill worker to “streetwalker” to a life defined by judgment and survival inside the almshouse and asylum. Her rare 1922 confession — recorded in her own words — reveals the realities of sex work, scandal, accusations of abuse, and a system designed to keep the vulnerable forgotten.

Based on original archival records and a lost clinical interview, this is a raw, unvarnished portrait of life inside Rhode Island's State Farm.

Music: “Endless Nightmare” by Oliver Garcia, licensed via Motion Array.