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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should violent offenders undergoing psychiatric treatment be housed in a light-security office-type building right on a major avenue and steps from a preschool, an elementary school and a library - and a short distance from DC’s largest middle school and high school, as well as two large independent schools in the area?  This is not the first time this has happened.  Shouldn’t such people be moved to a facility that is behind a more secure perimeter where escapes will be mimimized?[/quote]

It's DCs ONLY "locked-option" facility and this escape is telling..so no, and yes. We need a proper mental hospital. They should have converted the DC General site to that, or another site that could have a secured portion and be somewhat removed from residences. Not a poorly run private facility in an office building on Wisconsin Ave. DC is insane, no pun intended.[/quote]

DC also has St Elizabeths[/quote]

I think PIW is for short term care and supervision (including providing locked room services)--like someone up on charges deemed in need of psychological services so they are remanded there rather than home or released to report in later--and St. Elizabeth's (which has been seriously downsized and parceled out to other entities like Homeland Security and housing development) is for long term care and supervision of someone convicted, like a Hinkley.  PIW is privately run with a contract to the city, and I believe St. Elizabeth's is directly administered by DC Gov. [/quote]

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