Psych Ward News

 
Psych ward escapes worry neighbours
CBC.ca
Neighbours of a Coquitlam, BC, forensic psychiatric facility say they're worried about their safety after two patients recently walked away. Gregory Owen Schleen walked away from the Colony Farm Forensic Hospital Wednesday. He suffers from paranoid ...
Second man escapes psych wardCANOE

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Meriden's MidState looks to close psych ward, move beds to New Britain
Meriden Record-Journal
MERIDEN - MidState Medical Center's intent to close its psychiatric unit is facing some, but not all, of the same concerns from psychiatrists and others who opposed a similar move in 2007. Concerns at the time prompted the hospital to keep the ...


 
Globe and Mail
Psych eval ordered for man jailed in '79 death
Richmond Times Dispatch
... Patz vanished without a trace while walking to catch a school bus, a man accused of strangling him and dumping his body with the trash was arraigned on a murder charge on Friday in a locked hospital ward where he was being held as a suicide risk.
NJ man charged with murdering NY boy Patz in 1979Graffiti
'I Did A Bad Thing, I Killed A Child In New York': Man Charged With Killing PatzNew York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
Images vary of man charged in old murder of NY boyWall Street Journal

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Psych Ward May Have Been Overkill for Mom
Courthouse News Service
Susan was forced to strip naked, undergo a medical exam, provide a urine sample and undergo a psychiatric evaluation, according to the complaint. The hospital staff allegedly falsely told Susan that they had a court order to hold her there.


 
Being Admitted to a Psychiatric Ward - The Experience and the Process
Huffington Post UK (blog)
I recently watched a film - a terrible film - which had an archaic, grotesque depiction of life in a psychiatric ward. I won't tell you what film, as I do not wish to promulgate my disdain for it. After I recovered from the boredom, I woke up, ...

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David Toms 'soul searching' after missing the cut at Colonial
Shreveport Times
Putters have been known to make golfers batty — psych-ward crazy. Shreveport's David Toms isn't ready to check into a mental hospital just yet, but a lack of success on the greens has left a black cloud over the golf course. "I'm not really enjoying ...


 
Slab City, CA
San Diego Reader
By Ruth Newell, May 24, 2012 Trying to change the negative reputation that the Slabs had acquired over the years as a melting pot for drug addicts, hippies and psych ward releases, Builder Bill created the Range, just southeast of the Naval Aerial ...