Tag: Schizophrenia

Kendra’s Law Was Meant to Prevent Violence. It Failed Hundreds of Times.

After John Skeene served prison time for beating his mother to death with a chair leg, after he attacked a man with a radiator cover and threatened to murder his therapist, New York State placed him in its gold-standard program for treating mentally ill people at risk of committing violence. The program, which grew out […]

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Behind 94 Acts of Shocking Violence, Years of Glaring Mistakes

The last breakdown of Marcus Gomez began in full view of the people whose job it was to stop it. First, Mr. Gomez, a slight 45-year-old who was homeless and had long lived with schizophrenia, started hearing voices. Then he stripped off his clothes and stalked naked through the halls of his transitional housing program. […]

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