From the Salem Statesman Journal, June 9, 2009 Patients released from Oregon State Hospital would have to have placement options with services under a bill headed to Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Senate Bill 401, which cleared the House without change on a 57-0 vote, was the result of a group convened by the governor. The bill’s […]
From the Oregonian, July 27, 2003 Cutting mental health services to patients such as Douglas Bean has cost Oregon more money than it is saving Douglas Bean was a quiet success story for the psychiatrists and others who struggled to treat him. After more than 30 years in and out of state hospitals, he was […]
From The Oregonian, May 19, 1991 – not available elsewhere online When double killer Michael McCormack walked away from the Oregon State Hospital in March, he riveted public attention on the blocklong J Building that hugs Center Street. Legislators screamed about lax security. Headlines trumpeted a series of escapes from the hospital that houses Oregon’s […]
Judge rules man is able to face trial From The Oregonian, April 24, 1990 – not available elsewhere online After seven weeks of mental treatment, a Portland man accused of drowning his 5-year-old daughter in December is mentally capable of standing trial, a Multnomah County judge ruled Monday. Daniel Chan, 36, who is taking an […]
From The Oregonian, June 27, 1989 – not available elsewhere online A judge Monday found a woman who drowned her 3-year-old son guilty of murder except for insanity. Donna L. Gardner, 41, “did not appreciate the criminality of her conduct,” Multnomah County Circuit Judge Phillip Abraham concluded after a trial on stipulated facts. In addition, […]
From The Oregonian, March 29, 1988 – not elsewhere online A 26-year-old Portland mother who drowned her infant daughter “so she could get to heaven” was found guilty Monday of murder except for insanity. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Phillip J. Roth made the finding after the prosecution and the defense stipulated that Gloria Chames was […]
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 […]
Below is an important historical document surveying the challenges to the Oregon State Hospital’s Forensic Program from March 1986. It was created by Jim Carlson, a bureaucratic wizard who worked for both the state and for Multnomah County, and is a snapshot of the intense gobbledygook of mental health administration. The report shows how the […]
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