Ezra Pound confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital

Poet Ezra Pound was held at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast Washington, D.C., after being indicted for treason in 1945; he remained confined there from 1945 until his release in 1958 after being found unfit to stand trial. St. Elizabeths is a federal psychiatric hospital with a long documented history of treating high-profile and forensic patients. Pound's confinement at the hospital is a well-documented episode in both literary and legal histories.