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By Christopher David Gray, The Lund Report, Oct. 3, 2013 Before adjourning yesterday, legislators created a dedicated funding stream for mental health services, bringing in nearly $150 million over five years through a small increase in the cigarette tax. Cigarettes will go up 13¢ a pack in 2014 and an additional penny in 2016 and […]
By Alan Gustafson, Statesman Journal, Jan. 19, 2012 A new two-tiered system for releasing criminally committed patients from the Oregon State Hospital is being launched at the Salem psychiatric facility, raising hopes that some patients will have shorter, less costly stints of care. But even as some patients and mental health advocates welcome the new […]
From the Salem Statesman Journal, September 18, 2011 A bill that modifies how mental patients with criminal pasts are released from the Oregon State Hospital has left confusion, bitterness and dueling state legal opinions in its wake, months after its passage by the 2011 Legislature. Senate Bill 420 cleared the Legislature after an intense lobbying […]
By Amanda Waldroupe, published in Street Roots, July 13, 2011 The Oregon Legislature adjourned on June 30, and in its final week, passed two bills reforming the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) that aim to eventually reduce the number of people staying, and the length of stays in the Oregon State Hospital. House Bill 3100 […]
From The Lund Report, June 1, 2011, by Amanda Waldroupe Nevertheless, concerns about more aggressive changes to the Board persist A bill that fundamentally changes the way people are evaluated who are found “guilty except for insanity” is winding its way through the legislature, and represents the most significant changes to the Psychiatric Security Review […]
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