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| Balancing punishment, treatment |
| By Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Published: 12/29/2008 |
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WASHINGTON - For a while, Nick Monostory and Thomas Gergen were next-door neighbors at Western State Hospital's ward for the criminally insane. Though they shared a hallway, and similar diagnoses, they experienced vastly different fates in the mental health and criminal courts system. Thirty-three years ago, Monostory came home late one night and knocked a neighbor down after she asked him to simmer down. The neighbor hit her head when she fell, and died a few days later. Monostory, who suffers from a laundry list of mental disorders, including schizoaffective disorder, was charged with second-degree murder and found not guilty by reason of insanity. In 1975, he was sent to Western, the state's hospital for the severely mentally ill. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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