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| Psychiatric Prison Care Essential To Safety |
| By crosscut.com |
| Published: 11/19/2010 |
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Seventeen Washingtonians have been murdered over the past 13 years by men whose violent psychiatric disorders were known to authorities before they committed the crimes. Of the nine men who killed those people, the most recent and notorious is Maurice Clemmons, who killed four Lakewood police officers a year ago after being paroled despite a documented history of mental illness. Before Clemmons' murder spree, in a scathing 2008 article headlined “State pays in blood for flawed mental health system,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer described 11 of the “preventable tragedies.” Award-winning reporter Carol Smith (now a senior writer at Investigate West), wrote that state laws combined with an “overburdened, ineffective mental health care system” enabled the homicides. Read More. |
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