October 1999 – Oregon Mental Health Archive

Nowhere to turn

October 25, 1999

From The Oregonian, October 25, 1999, by Michelle Roberts READ – Losing Christopher – a son out of control, October 24, 1999 On May 22, 1996, Sydney Putnam moved Christopher Hutchinson‘s folder to the top of her stack. Putnam, a caseworker for the state Office for Services to Children and Families, was juggling the cases […]

Jails, prisons confront influx of mentally ill inmates

October 24, 1999

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| Prisons

From The Oregonian, October 24, 1999 A survey this year by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics found that more than 280,000 mentally ill inmates — 16 percent of the 1.75 million inmate population — live behind the bars of the nation’s correctional institutions. And almost 20 percent of those incarcerated for violent crimes suffer […]

Losing Christopher – a son out of control

October 24, 1999

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| Advocacy

From The Oregonian, October 24, 1999 – by Michelle Roberts READ – Why Treatment Is Critical for Youth With Mental Illness, by Michelle Roberts – a look back at “Losing Christopher”. On March 22, Christopher Hutchinson was sentenced to spend the rest of his boyhood behind bars in one of Oregon’s highest-security youth prisons. He […]