Richard Laing – Oregon Mental Health Archive

Release System at State Hospital Debuts

January 21, 2012

By Alan Gustafson, Statesman Journal, Jan. 19, 2012 A new two-tiered system for releasing criminally committed patients from the Oregon State Hospital is being launched at the Salem psychiatric facility, raising hopes that some patients will have shorter, less costly stints of care. But even as some patients and mental health advocates welcome the new […]

Long-Forgotten Reminders Of the Mentally Ill in Oregon

March 14, 2005

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From the New York Times, March 14, 2005. Next to the old mortuary, where the dead were once washed and prepared for burial or cremation, is a locked room without a name. Inside the room, in a dim and dusty corner of one of many abandoned buildings on the decaying campus of the Oregon State […]