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THE LAW OFFICES OF
Patrick John Sweeney, P.C.
Patrick John Sweeney
Attorney at Law
1549 SE Ladd
Portland, Oregon
Portland:
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(503) 491-5156
(503) 615-0425
(503) 244-2084
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A patient at the Oregon State Hospital speaks out in the documentary “Guilty Except for Insanity. "
Dilemmas and the Criminally Insane
Going inside the
state hospital
Documentary director Jan Haaken
(Q ueen o f Hearts: C om m unity
Therapists in Drag), a professor o f
psychology at Portland State Uni
versity, returns to the Salem State
Hospital, the location o f One Flew
Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and re
counts the stories o f real patients
who live in this famous hospital for
the criminally insane.
“Guilty Except for Insanity’’ tells
a larger tale o f broken lives and
raggedy safety nets, and reveals
the craziness o f an American sys
tem where you have to commit a
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each juncture in the road, from get
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trays the deeply human dilemmas
behind media images o f the crimi
nally insane and probes the conse
quences o f the American medical
management o f madness, will pre
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Portland Art Museum and North
west Film Center, 1219 S.W. Park
Ave.
Oregon State Hospital has been
the focus o f intense controversy,
including charges by the U.S. De
partment o f Justice o f massive civil
rights abuses o f patients. This docu
mentary tells a different side o f the
story - one that captures broader
national trends in community men
tal health services.
Through footage shot at the
hospital and interviews with pa
tients and staff, the film shows how
these patients had fallen deep into
troubled waters before being caught
in the raggedy "safety net" o f jails,
courts, and, finally, the state hospi
tal. And in following the compelling
stories o f these patients, the docu
mentary also tells a disturbing tale
o f political neglect and public para
noia concerning the mentally ill.
Admission is $8 with tickets avail
able at the door.
10 Pounds of Heroin Seized
Investigators from the Portland
Police Bureau's Drugs and Vice Di
vision made three arrests after car
rying out search warrants which
resulted in the seizure o f 10 pounds
o f heroin and
$65,000 in cash.
T he search
w arrants were
served June 14
at 12238 S.E.
B ush St. and
12045 S.E. Bush
St. and at an
apartment com
plex at20433 S.E.
Stark St. Seven
vehicles associ
ated w ith the
heroin sales operation were also
searched.
Police say the heroin was esti
m ated to be worth betw een $1
million and $1.5 million and would
supply approximately 72,500 sepa
rate individual sales on the street.
Investigators believe the heroin
was driven here from Phoenix,
Ariz. to be sold in the Portland
area.
The three men charged were
Sergio Aguilar Sahagun, 33, Roman
Aguilar Rocha, 38, and Edgar Curiel
Guzman, 29. All o f the men were
lo d g ed
in
the
d o w n to w n
Multnomah County Jail.