It was called a place of no return. Out of psychiatric hospitals in Europe in the 1960s, Volterra was just another huge mental asylum located in Italy. 6,000 patients live there, but it didn't feel like a hospital. It operated more like a prison. Patients were treated like inmates, often sedated and isolated. Harsh punishments are used to ensure order and obedience for example, electroshock and ice tanks submersion. If none of that worked, doctors perform lobotomies.