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PROVO - It looks more like a university campus and at home, several hundred mentally ill patients, including dozens of convicted or accused of murder, rape or aggravated injury.
Hidden from the foothills to the east of Provo, Utah State Hospital is located on 600 hectares, where the grass on a hot day in March, half a dozen patients are in a walk.
There is nothing comparable homes tumultartigen crazy past eras in Hollywood films as a “flew over the cuckoo’s nest” in which the character of Jack Nicholson is cruel electric shock therapy to submit, and, finally, a lobotomy .
In the Utah State Hospital, the staff smile, joy and patients seem to fill skylighted ceilings in the corridors with sunlight.
“What happens here is very positive,” said Superintendent Dallas Earnshaw hospital and pointed out that the biological causes of mental illnesses. “It’s not too scary or stigma.”
Schlagzeilenträchtige recent events such as the treatment of the Battle of Elizabeth Smart kidnappers Wanda Eileen Barzee - who fights forced medication against the Utah Supreme Court this week after four years at the hospital - are exceptions.
Six months, the median length of residence in the past year to the hospital unit of Forensic Medicine, houses more than two dozen gunmen on the part of defendants accused of housing, shop theft , stalking, forgery of documents and substance abuse –
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Crime.
Patients are civil obligations spent more than five months in the hospital. And the majority of patients readily accept, treatment and medicines.
“Many patients say,” This is the first time that I felt a bit of peace. I am not the penalty, in addition to the vote, “said Earnshaw.” Most have just been treated and released. ”
The hospital has 100 beds for the species known as “legal” patients or convicted of crimes.
The forensic unit is monitored by cameras, and two staff members control in a situation blocked. Guards are not published, and security is minimal. Earnshaw, said violence is rare. Doctors working for some patients forensic fairly good condition for the study, while school employees, as the Court system works.
Even though it may still be symptoms of mental illness, the patient may expect a competent, if he or she understands the court, the potential penalties and, with his lawyer.
Another category of forensic patients were because they were “guilty and mentally ill” and treated before transfer to prison.
The emphasis is different for hospitals-72 children between 6 and 17, and sent nearly 200 adults for civil obligations. For the holding of civilian hospital treatment, education and training to allow the return of patients successfully in their communities.
“The hospital treatment Mall” classes ranging from ceramics to exercise and the recovery of money management and vocational rehabilitation.
“We will try to return home,” says Earnshaw. “One of the biggest misconceptions is that patients are dangerous and they are locked and hesitant, and the need here for the rest of their lives .
“Most people are surprised at how they are active in the treatment and classes and learning, and the need to rest and talk and interact.
The doctors were quick to zero in on the right drug for each patient, Earnshaw said. The center is intended as she teaches drug management and understand why they need to ensure that one.
Earnshaw, that some mentally ill do not take their medication for a variety of reasons, including an exercise that they are not ill, the concern about side effects and the inability, for which they pay.
Given that mental illness still a certain stigma door Earnshaw, said that some patients rather than “long-suffering crazy.”