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Most mental health specialists think that there is no alternative to hospitalizing psychotics and other mentally disturbed patients whose actions endanger others-and often themselves. Honolulu Psychologist Patrick DeLeon takes an entirely different view. "The worst thing you can do to a patient," he says, "is admit him to a hospital." Instead, DeLeon has a theory which advocates placing small groups of chronic mental patients in "family living units" in which they live as brothers and sisters in rented private apartments, hold jobs if they can, and solve day-to-day problems with almost no outside guidance...
Last week, at a convention of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu, DeLeon described his own experiment with five "families" that consisted of some of the "worst" patients* he and his colleagues had encountered at Hawaii State Hospital and other institutions. Most of them had been hospitalized from one to eleven times and seemed in need of recommitment when DeLeon suggested to them that they might prefer a house to a hospital...
...movements of that drama are at present known only to a small group of people. If, in fact, they are all known by anyone still living. However the body count, as always, has been widely circulated. Dead are George Jackson, central figure of the drama, three white guards--Frank DeLeon, Paul Krasnes and Jere Graham-- and two white inmates--John Lynn and Ronald Kane...
There, another skin search was just beginning when, according to prison officials, a guard noticed a gun in Jackson's hair. Jackson, said the officials, screamed, "This is it!" When a guard came to get DeLeon for another assignment, a shot was fired through a glass door and the mayhem began...
Someone threw the switch that controls the locks on the first floor of the Adjustment Center; 25 prisoners were freed from their cells. There is confusion over the precise sequence of events, but before order was restored Jackson was dead. So were Guards DeLeon, Paul Krasenes and Jere Graham, and two inmates, John Lynn and Ronald Kane. The throats of all five had been slashed with a razor blade imbedded in a toothbrush handle, and two of the guards had been shot. Four of the bodies were piled into Jackson's cell, perhaps saving the life of a wounded...