Mind Games – Oregonian Series – Oregon Mental Health Archive

Inmates using murder, suicide to escape the terror of the deadliest ward

October 28, 1987

Mind Games: Oregon’s Mental Health System Fourth of a five part series on the Oregon State Hospital From The Oregonian, October 28, 1987 – not available elsewhere online Kenneth R. Case, a convicted killer found criminally insane, faced the unhappy prospect at the age of 21 of spending the rest of his life in Oregon […]

Mentally ill: Society’s new lepers

October 28, 1987

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Mind Games: Oregon’s Mental Health System Fourth of a five part series on the Oregon State Hospital From The Oregonian, October 26, 1987 – not available online elsewhere When Lois Gleason closed the door for the last time on her West Hills apartment this month, she headed downstairs to another crisis in her 11-year history […]

Inadequate staffing leaves mental patients unsafe

October 25, 1987

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Mind Games: Oregon’s Mental Health System First of a five part series on the Oregon State Hospital From The Oregonian – October 25, 1987. Not available elsewhere online. Asylum: A place where one is safe and secure.” — Webster’s New World Dictionary. When George Lewis Archer, 60, collapsed dead in a pool of blood by […]