(Illustration special to the Enterprise by Katherine Lam) After Sean Rieschel punched a woman at a laundromat for refusing to give him $3.50, he was found “guilty except for insanity” in 2010 and sent to the Oregon State Hospital. There, he was treated for bipolar and substance-use disorders — help[Read More…]
Tag: SPECIAL REPORT: A SICK SYSTEM
Criminally insane in Oregon attack twice as many people as previously known, new data shows
CORRECTION: A review of this story after publication identified factual errors and flaws in data analysis. To learn about the errors, please see this POST. Editor’s Note: This updates a story published on Nov. 14 by ProPublica and the Malheur Enterprise that was based on an incomplete set of data[Read More…]
UPDATED: Oregon board says those found criminally insane rarely commit new crimes. The numbers say otherwise.
CORRECTION: A review of this story after publication identified factual errors and flaws in data analysis. To learn about the errors, please see this POST. Editor’s Note: This story updates a Nov. 14 report by ProPublica and the Malheur Enterprise that was based on data provided by Oregon’s Psychiatric Security[Read More…]
Oregon board says those found criminally insane rarely commit new crimes. The numbers say otherwise.
CORRECTION: A review of this story after publication identified factual errors and flaws in data analysis. To learn about the errors, please see this POST. Editor’s note: After the publication of this story, Oregon’s Psychiatric Security Review Board informed the Malheur Enterprise that it did not provide the news organization with complete[Read More…]
What Oregon officials knew about the new crimes of people found criminally insane — and when they knew it
Members of the Psychiatric Security Review Board hear testimony at the Oregon State Hospital earlier this year. Pictured from left are John Swetnam, the public member; Chairwoman Elena Balduzzi, a pscyhologist; and Trisha Elmer, a parole and probation officer. The board also includes a psychiatrist, Dr. Scott Reichlin, and an[Read More…]
How journalists analyzed the outcomes of those freed by Oregon’s Psychiatric Security Review Board
Illustration special to the Enterprise by Hokyoung Kim CORRECTION: A review of this story after publication identified factual errors and flaws in data analysis. To learn about the errors, please see this POST. Studies of the criminal justice system rarely consider what happens after insanity defendants are freed. In Oregon,[Read More…]
