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...duties as director of Catholic Relief Services in Lebanon, he was kept in solitary confinement, blindfolded and chained by his ankle to a wall. After six months, he was put in a small room with Anderson, Jacobsen and Sutherland. Until his release last September, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary, was also with them. The only clothing the captives were given was two pairs of underwear apiece--one for wearing, the other for washing. Each man was allowed to use a toilet only once a day, though a urinal bottle was provided. Apparently fearing a rescue mission...
Only a few days earlier Gonzalez had undergone another psychiatric evaluation. After being observed on a street making wild threats ("I'm going to kill! God told me so!"), he had been taken to Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital. Physicians concluded he had a "psychotic paranoid disorder," but released him after two days...
...aftermath of the ferry carnage, the decision to put such a violence- prone person back on the streets outraged observers, officials and doctors alike. New York City Mayor Ed Koch ordered his mental-health commissioner to investigate the procedures that were followed from the time Gonzalez was taken to Presbyterian to the time he was arrested...
Actually, Presbyterian Hospital's decisions flowed from the pressures and imperatives arising from 30 years of social, medical and legal policies specifically designed to liberate patients from forced confinement. The development of effective drugs prompted states to begin the wholesale release of patients from hospitals. At the same time patient advocacy movements, citing stories of people left to languish for years in "snake pits," established an individual's right to refuse involuntary commitment or treatment...
...have not intimidated INS, which intends to continue prosecuting clergy and church workers who offer sanctuary to illegals. Another trial is scheduled to begin next month in Brownsville, Texas; Defendant Stacey Merkt is a Methodist. But the prosecutions, far from stemming the movement, have given it new prominence. Says Presbyterian Fife: "Tens of millions of Americans who never knew this was an issue now know about it. And they know it is a major church-state issue, probably the major one of the 1980s...