Judge praises progress at Maine’s Riverview Psychiatric Center
During a hearing on a 1990 consent decree involving former AMHI patients, hospital officials describe a new approach to integrating patients committed through Maine's criminal justice system.
At state-run Riverview, danger and dysfunction pervasive
A Telegram investigation of the Augusta facility unearths troubling evidence of a culture of abuse and a staff ill-equipped to cope with the mentally ill.
Riverview patient faces charges after rampage
Charles D. Miles is accused of terrorizing and criminal mischief causing $4,370 in damage at the psychiatric hospital.
Increased violence at Maine’s psych hospital prompts reform
AUGUSTA, Maine — Of the 92 people in state custody who were found “not criminally responsible” for crimes, 18 have been charged with at least one count of murder.
Maine’s mentally ill more likely to be in prison than hospital
Maine lawmakers last week signed off on a plan that will allow the state to transfer certain patients from Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta, one of Maine’s two state-run psychiatric hospitals, to an expanded, 32-bed mental health unit at Maine State Prison in Warren.
Another View: State prison wrong setting for Riverview forensic patients
We are troubled by the assertion that patients who have been found too mentally ill to be held responsible for a crime still belong in prison (“Our View: Forensic patients swamp state mental hospital,” Aug. 25).