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"content": "\u003cp>My nine-month investigation into California's state mental hospitals began with a simple question: \"What happens to people found 'not guilty by reason of insanity' or 'incompetent to stand trial'?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out the answers -- and the issues raised -- are complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week marks a grim anniversary for Napa State Hospital. Five years ago Saturday, hospital psychiatric technician Donna Gross was murdered by a patient there. I focused my reporting in Napa, as opposed to the other four state mental hospitals (Atascadero, Coalinga, Metropolitan and Patton) because I wanted to know what impact Gross's murder had on the hospital and how security and policies have changed since then. I needed to talk to hospital staff, patients and their families to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways Napa is a very troubled institution. And the trouble started long before Donna Gross was murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2004, the hospital denied access to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), which was investigating conditions at the hospital. The DOJ was looking at potential violations of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/crt/civil-rights-institutionalized-persons\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act\u003c/a>. Denying the U.S. Attorney General access -- that's rather astonishing. Despite this lack of access, the DOJ interviewed hospital staff and others and \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2010/12/15/napa_findlet_6-27-05.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a>, among other things, failure \"to protect patients from harm and abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6PLenFAZTbDgeJeArqVR3exzy3n7xR8d\"]In 2010, a few months before \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Napa-State-Hospital-psychiatric-worker-slain-3248688.php\" target=\"_blank\">Donna Gross \u003c/a>was murdered, the hospital's executive director Claude E. Foulk was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/25/local/la-me-hospital-director25-2010feb25\" target=\"_blank\">fired\u003c/a> after being arrested and charged with child molestation. 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Jerry Brown signed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1340\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1340\u003c/a>, which will allow Napa and other state hospitals to segregate the most dangerous patients and give them \"enhanced treatment\" -- including risk assessment for violent behavior and concentrated clinical therapy -- in a secure setting. Construction has not yet started on this additional housing.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It was in this context that I asked to interview hospital director Matteucci. At first I was told \"maybe,\" then I was told she could only do the interview on the phone. After pushing, I was granted an in-person interview with her in the administration building \"outside the security fence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital had more than 1,800 physical assaults last year. To be fair, \"assault\" can be anything from pushing away the hand of a nurse who's giving out medication to getting punched or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it is patients, not staff, who are usually the victims of this violence from other patients. A small number of them cause most of the problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to visit the hospital and talk with a patient. The public information officer for the Department of State Hospitals told me I was free to write to any patient I knew was there (such as perpetrators of very high profile crimes, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/should-it-matter-that-the-shooter-at-oikos-university-was-korean.html\" target=\"_blank\">One L. Goh\u003c/a>, the shooter at Oikos University in Oakland in 2013) to ask if they would talk to me. I knew this would be a long shot, so instead I reached out to the hospital's family support group. Eventually I visited Napa with Frank and Barbara Brackin, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/23/violence-and-healing-at-napa-state-hospital-tale-of-two-families/\" target=\"_blank\">as I described in my story on Friday.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their son Shawn ended up in Napa after a tragic incident in a Roseville. During an attempt by Shawn of \"suicide by cop,\" he walked into a police station waving a gun. In the melee, a police officer shot and killed another policeman by mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to time in a state mental hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly 20 years he's been there, Shawn has been brutally assaulted, most recently in 2014 when another patient slammed his head into a wall so hard his hair was stuck in the wall. The Brackins are suing the hospital for failing to protect him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing emphasized to me over and over is that people sent to state mental hospitals are patients, not prisoners. That means they have certain rights and privileges, even if they're violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll never forget my visit to Napa with the Brackins. It felt like I had entered a kind of \"forbidden zone\" where outsiders rarely went. And meeting Shawn after hearing so much about him from his parents was very poignant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On my visit, we were met in the parking lot by a media representative from the Department of State Hospitals. We were warned not to videotape or photograph the barbed-wired security fence, the tight security at the main gate, or people coming and going (including reporters, like me).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We passed through multiple locked gates, doors and a metal detector before we were told to surrender cell phones and wallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was warned not to talk to or interview any other patients. I was asked to turn over my audio recordings of Shawn Brackin so the Department of State Hospitals could review them to make sure he didn't say anything compromising the privacy of other patients. I negotiated a much more narrow accommodation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was also denied any access to record audio of music therapy classes. I was told this could jeopardize patient privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I found all these requests to be overly strict. I've been to numerous state prisons, including San Quentin. 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Despite this lack of access, the DOJ interviewed hospital staff and others and \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/crt/legacy/2010/12/15/napa_findlet_6-27-05.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a>, among other things, failure \"to protect patients from harm and abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In 2010, a few months before \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Napa-State-Hospital-psychiatric-worker-slain-3248688.php\" target=\"_blank\">Donna Gross \u003c/a>was murdered, the hospital's executive director Claude E. Foulk was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/25/local/la-me-hospital-director25-2010feb25\" target=\"_blank\">fired\u003c/a> after being arrested and charged with child molestation. 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He later pleaded no contest to one count of murder and is now in Corcoran State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than two months later another hospital therapist was severely beaten as he escorted a different patient on the grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/19/five-years-after-brutal-murder-napa-hospital-seeks-to-balance-treatment-with-security/\" target=\"_blank\">I reported earlier this week \u003c/a>that since these incidents, there have been many changes at the Napa hospital:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Personal distress alarms with GPS replaced the old alarms, which didn't work outside where Gross was murdered\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More hospital police have been hired\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Policies have been changed to protect vulnerable staff, and\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gov. 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To be fair, \"assault\" can be anything from pushing away the hand of a nurse who's giving out medication to getting punched or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet it is patients, not staff, who are usually the victims of this violence from other patients. A small number of them cause most of the problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to visit the hospital and talk with a patient. The public information officer for the Department of State Hospitals told me I was free to write to any patient I knew was there (such as perpetrators of very high profile crimes, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/should-it-matter-that-the-shooter-at-oikos-university-was-korean.html\" target=\"_blank\">One L. Goh\u003c/a>, the shooter at Oikos University in Oakland in 2013) to ask if they would talk to me. I knew this would be a long shot, so instead I reached out to the hospital's family support group. Eventually I visited Napa with Frank and Barbara Brackin, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/23/violence-and-healing-at-napa-state-hospital-tale-of-two-families/\" target=\"_blank\">as I described in my story on Friday.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their son Shawn ended up in Napa after a tragic incident in a Roseville. During an attempt by Shawn of \"suicide by cop,\" he walked into a police station waving a gun. In the melee, a police officer shot and killed another policeman by mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to time in a state mental hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly 20 years he's been there, Shawn has been brutally assaulted, most recently in 2014 when another patient slammed his head into a wall so hard his hair was stuck in the wall. 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"content": "\u003cp>At California's five state psychiatric hospitals, patients are mostly criminal defendants found not guilty by reason of insanity or incompetent to stand trial. They've been sent to these institutions for psychiatric care. But sometimes the patients can be violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years ago this week, a \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/police-employee-at-psychiatric-hospital-killed-patient-arrested/article_c6428892-dfac-11df-805a-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">staff member was murdered\u003c/a> by a patient at Napa State Hospital. In the time since, the hospital has tried to improve safety. While the majority of patients are not violent, sometimes those who are target not just staff, but other patients as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it's rare for members of the media to gain access to the hospital, I was invited by Frank and Barbara Brackin to join them in visiting their 45-year-old son, Shawn, who has been a patient at Napa State for nearly 20 years. I met up with Shawn's parents in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229804825\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes he says he can't sleep when he's expecting a visit because he's so excited,\" Barbara Brackin tells me as we walk to the hospital's front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our main concern now is for Shawn's safety,\" her husband says. \"He was not given the death sentence, (but) he's almost had it twice in the past three years,\" Frank adds, in reference to assaults Shawn has suffered at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96504\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWithDog-800x643.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Brackin during junior high school in 1983.\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWithDog.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWithDog-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Brackin during junior high school in 1983. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brackin Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After passing through a number of locked gates and surrendering our driver's licenses, we pass through several locked doors and then a metal detector, where we also surrender our cellphones and wallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last, we're ushered into a tiny room to visit with Shawn Brackin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad to see you,\" he says, shuffling toward us with difficulty. He's wearing a blue helmet to protect his head in case he falls -- which happens somewhat frequently -- or is pushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn wasn't always in this condition, his parents had explained to me earlier. His life took a bad turn at age 6, when he was struck by a car and had a severe head injury. That accident began a slow descent that ended in tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from high school, Shawn became increasingly depressed and withdrawn. In 1995, he took a small gun and walked into a local police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Brackin says that was an attempt at \"suicide by cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was wanting to die,\" Frank Brackin says. \"And so he put himself before the firing squad, and he had no idea the firing squad would turn on themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that day, when he was 25 years old, Shawn was shot by police but survived. In the mayhem, an officer shot and killed another cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Brackin was charged with six felonies. As part of a plea deal, he was found \"not guilty by reason of insanity.\" And that plea -- with its diagnosis of mental illness -- is what led him to Napa State Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had no choice, really,\" Shawn's father says. \"We wanted to protect him and make sure he had a safe environment. We thought a hospital would be a safe environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96499\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96499 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-800x757.jpg\" alt=\"Napa State Hospital patient Shawn Brackin spent 17 days in the ICU at UC San Francisco Medical Center after being severely beaten by a fellow patient in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-800x757.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-400x378.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-1440x1362.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-1180x1116.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-960x908.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napa State Hospital patient Shawn Brackin spent 17 days in the ICU at UCSF Medical Center after being severely beaten by a fellow patient in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brackin Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But over the years, Shawn Brackin has been assaulted by several patients. Last year he suffered a particularly brutal assault when a patient turned on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he slammed Shawn into the wall so hard that it buried his head into the wall and left hair in the wall,\" Frank Brackin says. \"And then he hit him. And then Shawn hit that concrete floor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn needed emergency brain surgery. He was left with severe disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day I visited Shawn, his hair was damp from sweat. It was a hot day in Napa, and the tiny room had no air conditioning or ventilation. I ask him if feels he's gotten well while at the hospital, if he thinks he's better off for having been sent there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm better off,\" he says. \"I'm pretty good right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his mother says things are not good. Before he entered the state hospital system, Shawn was able to drive and hold a job, Barbara Brackin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He interacted with the family, laughed and joked, played cards. And he was the Uno champ,\" she says, and laughs. \"Nobody else could usually beat him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of our 45-minute visit, Frank Brackin reads a Bible verse, and then they say their goodbyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96507\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96507\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWFamily-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Brackin (top middle) celebrating Christmas with his family at Napa State Hospital in December, 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWFamily.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWFamily-400x284.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Brackin (top middle) celebrating Christmas with his family at Napa State Hospital in December 2011. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brackin Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We'll visit you again on Sunday, Shawn,\" Frank says. \"We'll have time to play some cards if you want. I love you. You're my main man, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes sir,\" Shawn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest assault on Shawn Brackin was just one of 1,800 at Napa State Hospital last year. To be fair, most of those assaults are very minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Brackins don't dismiss what their son did 20 years ago in that police station, they feel he's had to pay too high a price and have filed a lawsuit against the hospital, alleging negligence in failing to keep their son safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa has made many changes since psychiatric technician \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/police-employee-at-psychiatric-hospital-killed-patient-arrested/article_c6428892-dfac-11df-805a-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">Donna Gross was murdered by a patient \u003c/a>five years ago, but mostly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/19/five-years-after-brutal-murder-napa-hospital-seeks-to-balance-treatment-with-security/\" target=\"_blank\">those changes\u003c/a> are intended to protect staff. While a new law took effect in July that will allow the hospital to isolate the most dangerous patients, hospital Executive Director Dolly Matteucci says more needs to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have made tremendous progress in safety improvements and in mitigating violence at the hospital,\" she tells me. \"But sadly it continues to be a part of our environment and our shared experience as patients and employees. And it is unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Dolly Matteucci became executive director of Napa State Hospital after Donna Gross's murder. She stands in a conference room decorated with paintings created by psychiatric patients.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-400x286.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-1440x1031.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-960x688.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolly Matteucci became executive director of Napa State Hospital after the killing of Donna Gross. She stands in a conference room decorated with paintings created by psychiatric patients. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all families are critical of Napa. Many say they enjoy the visits with their loved ones -- who they say are finally getting the kind of treatment they should have gotten before the tragedy that sent them there happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candace and Hans -- they’ve asked that we just use their first names to protect their privacy -- say their son has been at Napa for 3½ years. At their request, we’re not using his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met with them in their home in Alameda, where Hans showed me his son's high school trophies from basketball and football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He loved fishing, so we have pictures of him catching a 32-pound salmon,\" says Hans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"z3MoWy1s3a0uaqzle3WibjbVXxDDGFT2\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candace says that when their son was in high school, he started changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He couldn't organize his homework. He couldn't turn in assignments,\" she says. \"And he was becoming very quiet around the house, and also talked about feeling spirits and things around him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the early signs of schizophrenia. The symptoms got worse, and his behavior escalated. Hans and Candace were so worried their son would hurt himself or someone else that they had him confined against his will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When police come into the house and handcuff your kid and take him out of the house, in the same house he grew up in sprawled across the floor, it's quite an experience,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called the police many times, but authorities could not hold him indefinitely, so he was always released. Candace and Hans tried repeatedly to get their son psychiatric help, but as an adult he had the right to refuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, in 2012 while suffering delusions, their son killed someone in the Berkeley Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to Napa State Hospital, where his mother says he is slowly getting better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has taken this long to see real results of recovery,\" she says, \"in little bits and pieces along the way. It was only because of the sustained treatment we had through Napa.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the complaints and problems at California’s state mental hospitals, there’s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/19/five-years-after-brutal-murder-napa-hospital-seeks-to-balance-treatment-with-security/\" target=\"_blank\"> a long waiting list \u003c/a>to get into them -- and many of those waiting spend their time in jail.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our main concern now is for Shawn's safety,\" her husband says. \"He was not given the death sentence, (but) he's almost had it twice in the past three years,\" Frank adds, in reference to assaults Shawn has suffered at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96504\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWithDog-800x643.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Brackin during junior high school in 1983.\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWithDog.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWithDog-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Brackin during junior high school in 1983. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brackin Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After passing through a number of locked gates and surrendering our driver's licenses, we pass through several locked doors and then a metal detector, where we also surrender our cellphones and wallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At last, we're ushered into a tiny room to visit with Shawn Brackin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad to see you,\" he says, shuffling toward us with difficulty. He's wearing a blue helmet to protect his head in case he falls -- which happens somewhat frequently -- or is pushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn wasn't always in this condition, his parents had explained to me earlier. His life took a bad turn at age 6, when he was struck by a car and had a severe head injury. That accident began a slow descent that ended in tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from high school, Shawn became increasingly depressed and withdrawn. In 1995, he took a small gun and walked into a local police station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Brackin says that was an attempt at \"suicide by cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was wanting to die,\" Frank Brackin says. \"And so he put himself before the firing squad, and he had no idea the firing squad would turn on themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On that day, when he was 25 years old, Shawn was shot by police but survived. In the mayhem, an officer shot and killed another cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn Brackin was charged with six felonies. As part of a plea deal, he was found \"not guilty by reason of insanity.\" And that plea -- with its diagnosis of mental illness -- is what led him to Napa State Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had no choice, really,\" Shawn's father says. \"We wanted to protect him and make sure he had a safe environment. We thought a hospital would be a safe environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96499\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96499 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-800x757.jpg\" alt=\"Napa State Hospital patient Shawn Brackin spent 17 days in the ICU at UC San Francisco Medical Center after being severely beaten by a fellow patient in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-800x757.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-400x378.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-1440x1362.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-1180x1116.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnBrackinICU-960x908.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napa State Hospital patient Shawn Brackin spent 17 days in the ICU at UCSF Medical Center after being severely beaten by a fellow patient in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brackin Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But over the years, Shawn Brackin has been assaulted by several patients. Last year he suffered a particularly brutal assault when a patient turned on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And he slammed Shawn into the wall so hard that it buried his head into the wall and left hair in the wall,\" Frank Brackin says. \"And then he hit him. And then Shawn hit that concrete floor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shawn needed emergency brain surgery. He was left with severe disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day I visited Shawn, his hair was damp from sweat. It was a hot day in Napa, and the tiny room had no air conditioning or ventilation. I ask him if feels he's gotten well while at the hospital, if he thinks he's better off for having been sent there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm better off,\" he says. \"I'm pretty good right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his mother says things are not good. Before he entered the state hospital system, Shawn was able to drive and hold a job, Barbara Brackin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He interacted with the family, laughed and joked, played cards. And he was the Uno champ,\" she says, and laughs. \"Nobody else could usually beat him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toward the end of our 45-minute visit, Frank Brackin reads a Bible verse, and then they say their goodbyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96507\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96507\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWFamily-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn Brackin (top middle) celebrating Christmas with his family at Napa State Hospital in December, 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWFamily.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/ShawnWFamily-400x284.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Brackin (top middle) celebrating Christmas with his family at Napa State Hospital in December 2011. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Brackin Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We'll visit you again on Sunday, Shawn,\" Frank says. \"We'll have time to play some cards if you want. I love you. You're my main man, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes sir,\" Shawn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest assault on Shawn Brackin was just one of 1,800 at Napa State Hospital last year. To be fair, most of those assaults are very minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Brackins don't dismiss what their son did 20 years ago in that police station, they feel he's had to pay too high a price and have filed a lawsuit against the hospital, alleging negligence in failing to keep their son safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa has made many changes since psychiatric technician \u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/police-employee-at-psychiatric-hospital-killed-patient-arrested/article_c6428892-dfac-11df-805a-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">Donna Gross was murdered by a patient \u003c/a>five years ago, but mostly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/19/five-years-after-brutal-murder-napa-hospital-seeks-to-balance-treatment-with-security/\" target=\"_blank\">those changes\u003c/a> are intended to protect staff. While a new law took effect in July that will allow the hospital to isolate the most dangerous patients, hospital Executive Director Dolly Matteucci says more needs to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have made tremendous progress in safety improvements and in mitigating violence at the hospital,\" she tells me. \"But sadly it continues to be a part of our environment and our shared experience as patients and employees. And it is unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-96512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Dolly Matteucci became executive director of Napa State Hospital after Donna Gross's murder. She stands in a conference room decorated with paintings created by psychiatric patients.\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-400x286.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-1440x1031.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DollyM-960x688.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolly Matteucci became executive director of Napa State Hospital after the killing of Donna Gross. She stands in a conference room decorated with paintings created by psychiatric patients. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all families are critical of Napa. Many say they enjoy the visits with their loved ones -- who they say are finally getting the kind of treatment they should have gotten before the tragedy that sent them there happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candace and Hans -- they’ve asked that we just use their first names to protect their privacy -- say their son has been at Napa for 3½ years. At their request, we’re not using his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met with them in their home in Alameda, where Hans showed me his son's high school trophies from basketball and football.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He loved fishing, so we have pictures of him catching a 32-pound salmon,\" says Hans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candace says that when their son was in high school, he started changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He couldn't organize his homework. He couldn't turn in assignments,\" she says. \"And he was becoming very quiet around the house, and also talked about feeling spirits and things around him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the early signs of schizophrenia. The symptoms got worse, and his behavior escalated. Hans and Candace were so worried their son would hurt himself or someone else that they had him confined against his will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When police come into the house and handcuff your kid and take him out of the house, in the same house he grew up in sprawled across the floor, it's quite an experience,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They called the police many times, but authorities could not hold him indefinitely, so he was always released. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 2010, Rodney Bock was arrested for carrying a loaded gun into a restaurant in Yuba City, north of Sacramento. Bock had severe mental illness and was later found incompetent to stand trial. He was released on bail, but was rearrested after he failed to appear at a court hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bock, 56, was placed in the Sutter County jail, awaiting transfer to a state hospital. While there, he began suffering hallucinations. After more than two weeks in jail, Bock hanged himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Jail is simply too dangerous a place for these most vulnerable defendants.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Micaela Davis, ACLU attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mentally ill defendants declared incompetent to stand trial, as Bock was, are supposed to be transferred to state mental hospitals for treatment within two or three months. But more than 300 of them statewide are languishing in county jails because there’s simply no bed space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bock's daughters are now plaintiffs in \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-sues-state-hospital-system-failing-mentally-ill-developmentally-disabled-criminal\" target=\"_blank\">a lawsuit\u003c/a> filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, charging two state agencies, including the Department of State Hospitals, with denying mentally ill inmates their right to due process -- and the treatment they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jail is simply too dangerous a place for these most vulnerable defendants,\" said Micaela Davis, lead attorney in the lawsuit. \"We have inmates that are waiting eight, nine months and sometimes over a year before being transferred to a facility for treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229285297\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's new state budget includes more than $17 million to add beds for defendants declared incompetent to stand trial. But not everyone agrees that's the best approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Manley is a mental health court judge in Santa Clara County. His court helps defendants struggling with severe mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, find alternatives to incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley doesn't want more psychiatric hospital beds; he wants to reserve state hospitals for the most violent defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\"\u003c/i>We send far too many people to state hospitals who do not pose a risk to public safety,\" he says. \"Because we don’t work with them to figure out if there isn’t a local alternative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley believes the psychiatric hospitals are already overcrowded -- and understaffed. \"As long as we keep overcrowding the hospitals, all we do is feed the fire,\" he says, referring to violence within the hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were more than 1,800 physical assaults at Napa State Hospital last year alone. Hospital officials say patients who are there to have their sanity restored for trial inflict the most serious injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"666xBwWJElI4zsw4g0a4Y9yXz6yonNLT\"]Ryan Navarre, with the organization representing Napa Hospital police, says that even officers are at risk. He recalled one patient specifically who put rocks into his socks and then spun them around \"violently,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State psychiatric hospitals continue \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/19/five-years-after-brutal-murder-napa-hospital-seeks-to-balance-treatment-with-security/\" target=\"_blank\">working to find a balance \u003c/a>between treatment and security for patients and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Manley thinks the best solution for nonviolent offenders is to create more community-based treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we add another 500 beds people to a state hospital, all we do is make the problem worse,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But funding is already inadequate for mental health treatment. And creating more community-based programs raises new challenges -- including resistance from neighbors who don’t really want to live near facilities whose clients are mentally ill criminal defendants.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>From a distance, the campus looks like a small suburban office park. Buildings are fringed by a wide lawn, but on the perimeter is a tall metal fence, topped by barbed wire. This is Napa State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital managed by California's Department of State Hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, anyone who enters the secure area, workers and visitors alike, passes through multiple doors, metal detectors and locked gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most people with mental illness are not violent, more than 80 percent of Napa’s patients are referred here by the criminal justice system. Some of them committed horrific crimes but were found not guilty by reason of insanity or incompetent to stand trial but ordered to a psychiatric hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229093529\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these patients can still be dangerous. Last year alone, the hospital says they committed more than 1,800 physical assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For staff here, this week marks a somber anniversary. It was here, on October 23, 2010, that psychiatric technician\u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/police-employee-at-psychiatric-hospital-killed-patient-arrested/article_c6428892-dfac-11df-805a-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Donna Gross was murdered by a patient\u003c/a> -- grabbed, dragged and strangled to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone who was here the day that Donna died on these grounds has PTSD, and we will never be able to address it. We just carry it. It's there,\" says Michael Jarschke. He has worked as a psychiatric technician at Napa State Hospital for 32 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93418\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 428px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-93418\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"A poster in the union hall at Napa State Hospital invites workers to a memorial service for their murdered co-worker Donna Gross.\" width=\"428\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-400x501.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-1440x1803.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-1180x1477.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-960x1202.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster in the union hall at Napa State Hospital invites workers to a memorial service for their murdered co-worker, Donna Gross. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time of Donna Gross’s murder, staff members all carried alarms to call for help. But Jarschke says that back then the alarm worked only inside the buildings -- not outside, where Gross was murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you think about it today, that's almost ludicrous that we would do this,\" Jarschke said. \"We always look back five years [later] and say, 'Wow, we were really dumb back then.' ''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As president of the union representing psychiatric technicians, Jarschke helped form the “Safety Now Coalition,\" employees who organized -- and demanded -- change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospital Executive Director Dolly Matteucci says there have been changes, like limiting the ability of potentially dangerous patients to walk around freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point in time, we have a much more stringent and informed and comprehensive grounds access policy,\" Matteucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matteucci describes the most important change at Napa -- a new personal alarm system with GPS to help hospital police respond more quickly to emergencies anywhere on the grounds. She has one hanging around her neck and explains that by pulling it, it sends an \"immediate notification to dispatch and to all hospital police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Violence is part of the daily life at Napa.'\u003ccite>Psychiatrist Steve Seager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I asked how frequently staff members are pulling the alarm, I was astonished by her response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tag gets pulled from 11 to 17 times in a day,\" she told me. \"Staff might see a patient escalating and say, 'That’s looking a little precarious. I want a little help before I engage that patient.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that the heavy use of the alarm system illustrates how difficult it can be to serve such a challenging population \"in a very complex, active environment that was not built for a forensic patient population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa State Hospital opened in 1875. Until 20 years ago, most of its patients were civil commitments. Today, the vast majority have criminal backgrounds, including gangs. In fact Napa patients include members of the Crips, Bloods, Aryan Brotherhood -- they're all there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93421\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93421\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-800x979.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Jarschke leads the Napa Chapter of the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians. He pushed to create a new alarm system with GPS to protect staff members.\" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-800x979.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-400x490.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-1440x1763.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-1180x1444.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-960x1175.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jarschke leads the Napa Chapter of the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians. He pushed to create a new alarm system with GPS to protect staff members. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To address that, Matteucci says, Napa has added more hospital police. But the hospital remains a dangerous place for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing of the state Senate Health Committee last year, psychiatric technician Stephanie Diaz gave tearful, halting testimony, recounting her recent experience with one patient. As she was escorting him up a stairwell, she said he tripped her, pinned her to the floor and attempted to rape her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started screaming at the top of my lungs,\" she told the committee, \"praying that someone would hear me. I wasn’t sure if I (had) pulled my alarm completely, and after a slight delay I heard the alarm sound and help arrived. It felt like an eternity. And I feared for my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz was testifying on behalf of legislation that would allow California's five state mental hospitals to isolate the most dangerous patients and give them more intensive treatment. The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1340\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1340\u003c/a>, passed and was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, but it will take time to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa psychiatrist Steve Seager is a vocal critic of hospital administration. He says much more needs to be done to protect both patients and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Violence is part of our life every day,\" he said. \"It’s just a constant thing. It’s not like violence happens now and again. Violence is part of the daily life at Napa.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It begs the question: Why would anyone want to work here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Ph3dhrjoXhqHDhZk6y2mkbAQ02y0zDED\"]\"One of my nurses said, 'This is a Jesus job.' The patients need treatment. They’re criminals.They've committed crimes. I never forget that. But they deserve to be treated with dignity, which we try and do,\" Seager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the violence, despite their criminal records, the clients at Napa are patients, not prisoners. Hospital director Matteucci reminds us that as patients, they have certain rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have the right and ability to be out and about in their treatment environment, treatment in groups. Exercising as a group. So it's just a demonstration of the complexity of our system,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For staff here, this week marks a somber anniversary. It was here, on October 23, 2010, that psychiatric technician\u003ca href=\"http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/police-employee-at-psychiatric-hospital-killed-patient-arrested/article_c6428892-dfac-11df-805a-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Donna Gross was murdered by a patient\u003c/a> -- grabbed, dragged and strangled to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone who was here the day that Donna died on these grounds has PTSD, and we will never be able to address it. We just carry it. It's there,\" says Michael Jarschke. He has worked as a psychiatric technician at Napa State Hospital for 32 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93418\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 428px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-93418\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"A poster in the union hall at Napa State Hospital invites workers to a memorial service for their murdered co-worker Donna Gross.\" width=\"428\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-400x501.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-1440x1803.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-1180x1477.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/DonnaFlyer-960x1202.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster in the union hall at Napa State Hospital invites workers to a memorial service for their murdered co-worker, Donna Gross. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time of Donna Gross’s murder, staff members all carried alarms to call for help. But Jarschke says that back then the alarm worked only inside the buildings -- not outside, where Gross was murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you think about it today, that's almost ludicrous that we would do this,\" Jarschke said. \"We always look back five years [later] and say, 'Wow, we were really dumb back then.' ''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As president of the union representing psychiatric technicians, Jarschke helped form the “Safety Now Coalition,\" employees who organized -- and demanded -- change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospital Executive Director Dolly Matteucci says there have been changes, like limiting the ability of potentially dangerous patients to walk around freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point in time, we have a much more stringent and informed and comprehensive grounds access policy,\" Matteucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matteucci describes the most important change at Napa -- a new personal alarm system with GPS to help hospital police respond more quickly to emergencies anywhere on the grounds. She has one hanging around her neck and explains that by pulling it, it sends an \"immediate notification to dispatch and to all hospital police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Violence is part of the daily life at Napa.'\u003ccite>Psychiatrist Steve Seager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I asked how frequently staff members are pulling the alarm, I was astonished by her response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tag gets pulled from 11 to 17 times in a day,\" she told me. \"Staff might see a patient escalating and say, 'That’s looking a little precarious. I want a little help before I engage that patient.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that the heavy use of the alarm system illustrates how difficult it can be to serve such a challenging population \"in a very complex, active environment that was not built for a forensic patient population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa State Hospital opened in 1875. Until 20 years ago, most of its patients were civil commitments. Today, the vast majority have criminal backgrounds, including gangs. In fact Napa patients include members of the Crips, Bloods, Aryan Brotherhood -- they're all there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93421\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93421\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-800x979.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Jarschke leads the Napa Chapter of the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians. He pushed to create a new alarm system with GPS to protect staff members.\" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-800x979.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-400x490.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-1440x1763.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-1180x1444.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/MichaelJarschke-960x1175.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jarschke leads the Napa Chapter of the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians. He pushed to create a new alarm system with GPS to protect staff members. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To address that, Matteucci says, Napa has added more hospital police. But the hospital remains a dangerous place for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing of the state Senate Health Committee last year, psychiatric technician Stephanie Diaz gave tearful, halting testimony, recounting her recent experience with one patient. As she was escorting him up a stairwell, she said he tripped her, pinned her to the floor and attempted to rape her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I started screaming at the top of my lungs,\" she told the committee, \"praying that someone would hear me. I wasn’t sure if I (had) pulled my alarm completely, and after a slight delay I heard the alarm sound and help arrived. It felt like an eternity. And I feared for my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz was testifying on behalf of legislation that would allow California's five state mental hospitals to isolate the most dangerous patients and give them more intensive treatment. The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1340\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1340\u003c/a>, passed and was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, but it will take time to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa psychiatrist Steve Seager is a vocal critic of hospital administration. He says much more needs to be done to protect both patients and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Violence is part of our life every day,\" he said. \"It’s just a constant thing. It’s not like violence happens now and again. Violence is part of the daily life at Napa.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It begs the question: Why would anyone want to work here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"One of my nurses said, 'This is a Jesus job.' The patients need treatment. They’re criminals.They've committed crimes. I never forget that. 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