The fear is palpable in California’s largest state-run psychiatric facility. It’s crept in with every whisper of a new Covid-19 diagnosis, filling the space left behind by each khaki-clad patient who was led away to a segregated area for the sick.
“I don’t want to die in here with the coronavirus,” said José Marin, a patient at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity in an arson case 10 years ago.
An advocacy group asked a judge to release as many as half the patients housed in Patton after a dramatic rise ...
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