Would you want one of these pedophiles with the most horrendous crimes imaginable against children being released and possibly being your neighbor??? [People] are being cremated and disposed of without their familys knowledge. According to Hydrick, Covid-19 is traveling so fast through the facility due to floaters, staff members who come from working in contaminated pods and spread the virus throughout the facility. Shortly after his return to the United States, Hydrick was convicted of engaging in lewd and lascivious acts with children and sentenced to seventeen years in prison. Six months prior to his release, the state evaluated Hydrick and diagnosed him with a pedophilic disorder and antisocial personality disorder. The state sent him to Atascadero State Hospital upon the completion of his prison sentence (the location of the Californias shadow prison at that time), and he would later be relocated to Coalinga State Hospital. Comment Guidelines. Tuesday 8:00 am - 9:00 pm ASH falsely claimed the murder was discovered by the doctor, not the janitor, according to the suit. 11 Notable Patients at the Government Hospital for the Insane Catholic Chaplain PO Box 7001 Atascadero, CA 93423 Phone: (805) 468-2489 E-Mail: Victor.Ozoufuanya@dsh.ca.gov. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, April Grundfor, who formerly worked as a clinical social worker at the hospital, alleges ASH staff instructed her to alter her clinical notes to protect the institution from liability for Turners death. (1976) The Atascadero Project:, Journal of Homosexuality, 1:1, 87-97. Sexual acts on a CHILD and or anyone against their will should never even have the privilege of living the rest of their life in a shadow prison where they are babied an have way too many RIGHTS. In the day room, patients watch television, beginning at 2 p.m. The murder came in the wake of federal court-mandated changes that reduced the usage of medication and restraints on patients, as well as a large turnover in staffing resulting in less experienced personnel working at the hospital. I spent five days and five nights in a mental hospital, Barker wrote. Shes in someones delusion. Sometimes he uses other words, and hes the only one in the world who knows what they mean.. On June 6, 2014, Grundfor received a disciplinary letter stating she had difficulty with professional relationships, and she was placed on an employee action plan. In 1903, Fitzgibbon, a longtime United States Treasury employee, escaped from and was then reconfined to St. Elizabeths. After getting expelled from military school in ninth-grade for getting his classmates drunk, Stanley spent more that a year as a patient at St. Elizabeths. DSH-Atascadero is also the regional training center for hospital police officers throughout the State of California. To remind her patients of the outside, Jensen and her staff turned a prison-like courtyard into a landscaped showcase. He was sent to Atascadero State Hospital with the stipulation that if he were restored to sanity, he would serve 31 years in prison, Myers said. Federal Holidays 8:00 am - 3:00 pm. In October 1980, 92 Cuban refugees who were confined to St. Elizabeths for psychiatric observation seized control of a small building on campus. The attacks on staff are not as common as people believe.. Over the years there have been escapes, violent incidents and conflicts between management and the safety concerns of staff. The data collected revealed not only deaths but also hundreds of physical and sexual assaults against patients over the last decade, including two staff members who broke a patient's arm, a staff. As a retired employee from this facility, theres only a handful who should be returned to society. You should have been there to witness the major abuse, assaults, threats, and violence acts Hydrick did to the staff on a daily basis. Your email address will not be published. If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate's extended family. The smoke says what many psychotics here cant. State investigators issued an immediate jeopardy -- the most severe penalty given to a hospital -- and fined the hospital $50,000, according to state records. After a decade and a half of surviving in this Kafkaesque carceral system of preventative detention, he has a wealth of first-hand knowledge regarding what its like to be locked up for what you might do in the future. According to a 1981 New York Times article, he lived in a large room overlooking the Capitol, received special food, and was allowed to give lectures in the hospital auditorium. Box 7001 Atascadero, CA 93423-7001 Street Address: Department of State Hospitals - Atascadero 10333 El Camino Real Atascadero, CA 93422 Fax: (805) 468-6011 TDD: (805) 468-2009 Patient Records Request Fax: (805) 468-2582 Email: ashroi@dsh.ca.gov Pearson was struck several times before she fell and hit her head on the concrete floor, said hospital spokeswoman Barrie Hafler. The first patients were admitted in June 1954, after four years and $12 million of construction. They need real caring treatment. The 1960's were also a troubled decade for Atascadero, plagued by internal dissension, staff rebellions, and occasional scandal. We do get societys failures, those (who) society has failed to treat.. Im interested in him because he has incorporated me into his delusional system. My dad severed his time. these results undermine the justification for indeterminate lifetime commitment of sex offenders." While in prison, somebody dropped 80 pounds of weights on his face as he was bench pressing. When I go out to medical appointments I am handcuffed, put in leg irons, and transported by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [Californias prison system] You see, these staff members, they treat you like they treat you in prison. I became a psych tech by accident, said Jensen. A history of violence | News - New Times San Luis Obispo It was later discovered that the doctors who examined Pound found him to be perfectly sane. Friday 8:00 am - 9:00 pm There is no time frame given for the transfer, the factors include bed space and logistic timing for the sheriff or marshals to transport the inmate securely. They look at you like they look at you in prison, like you are a worthless piece of crap. our state magazine january 2022; atascadero state hospital famous inmates. [12][13] Initially constructed to treat mentally disordered sex offenders (MDSOs), initial programs focused on separation from society, albeit in an environment which provided freedom of movement. There are five facilities in the state hospital system: Atascadero State Hospital, Coalinga State Hospital, Metropolitan State Hospital, Napa State Hospital, and Patton State Hospital. Crim. So we wanted you to get a sense of what kind of people work at this not-a-prison prison. Bedlam, established in 1247, is Europe's oldest facility dedicated to treating mental illness. So its just not happening., It is evident that there is a pressing need to decarcerate these facilities, not only due to the injustices they perpetrate against citizens who have already paid their dues to society and the blatant deprivation of liberty, but also because of the dire situation Covid-19 presents for carceral settings. When salaries for California prison mental health staff, especially psychiatrists, increased dramatically as a result of federal litigation, ASH lost many of its psychiatrists and other clinical staff. There is an intermittent history of aversive conditioning. Only today they know to swear off the swastika. Be part of the news. Twelve of the 26 patients came from prisons and are psychologically disturbed. In some states the consultants serve as court monitors while others serve as consultants. He uses neologisms made-up words. At Atascadero State . Were a hospital, not a prison, and our primary task is to provide care for sometimes profoundly mentally ill patients and we do that with great skill and compassion, he said. Sometimes he calls me an elbow. Working with the mentally ill can take a toll on the workers. According too the lawsuit, in the weeks leading up to the murder, Cary committed multiple acts of violence against other patients. P.S. He was subsequently diagnosed with schizophrenia and died in 1920. A $300-million (minimum) gondola to Dodger Stadium? Hinckley was confined to St. Elizabeths after a jury found he was legally insane when he attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Hospital management also denied her access to patient medical records, and her supervisors instructed her not to speak to the families of Turner or Cary, according to the suit. Most of the employees have very little education. Master manipulators in there. We cant even have a piece of tape here. I just enjoy it.. Those patients that are too old and those who cant speak, walk or think properly are the ones that are abused the most. The hospital sits on about 400 acres and is surrounded by a 16-foot fence topped with razor wire. The majority of the all-male patient population is remanded for treatment by county superior courts or by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Six months prior to release, those who [have been] convicted of a legislatively defined set of sex offenses are seen by the DSH [Department of State Hospital] or independent evaluators, according to their website. Police Officers are sworn law enforcement officers whose authority is granted under California Penal Code Section 830. Grundfor informed her supervising doctor, who briefly acknowledged the problem, then continued reading a book, according to the suit. Lawrence was held in several institutions before being committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane in 1855. without their familys knowledge. According to Hydrick, Covid-19 is traveling so fast through the facility due to floaters, staff members who come from working in contaminated pods and spread the virus throughout the facility. Inside Coalinga: California's Worst Shadow Prison Clyde raises his arm above the glass, weaves it through the bars and offers Tracy Jensen a cigarette a generic menthol as she conducts a tour of the ward. You cant ruminate about it. I was saved by a petite psychiatric technician, Tracy Jensen, who stepped in and redirected the agitated patient with a few words. [32] In this era, ASH was an important center of research and teaching.[33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Today, young people themselves make 10s of MILLIONS of pieces of child pornography only a tiny fraction of which trickles into the hands of pedophiles. You are like a Nazi guard of a concentration camp. The Atascadero Jail is a city jail located at 5505 El Camino Real in Atascadero, CA. Hydrick is on record as having a very rough, abusive childhood a history of trauma all too common amongst his fellow shadow prisoners at Coalinga so Hydrick took up martial arts at an early age as a way of defending himself from the harm he was subjected to. However, in my interactions with Hydrick, he was anything but antisocial. He calls me Carole Lombard., He likes it when I smoke cigars with him, said Jenson, lighting a Marlboro Light under an 8-by-10 foot photograph of a stream tickling the feet of snow-capped mountains. But the day was going to be released after serving double of his life, he died in their hands. The hospital, near San Luis Obispo on the Central Coast, has about 1,200 residents -- most of whom have been convicted of violent crimes. Ward 12 sparkles. While living there he became one of the main contributors to the original Oxford English Dictionary. Make that your next article moron!! You spent what, maybe and hour with these molesters? Whatever crime a man has committed to go to prison, he has paid his dues for that crime, Hydrick told me at the end of our conversation, [Post-sentence civil confinement schemes] should be illegal. After listening to Francis Scott Key prosecute Lawrence, it didnt take long for the jury to come to the conclusion that the painter was not guilty by reason of insanity. Fuck these dumb mfs an any of your family members in there. In addition to police responsibilities and investigations, police officers work closely with clinical staff to ensure the safe treatment of the patients of DSHA.