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Research batch 10
Batch 10.
Batch 10 (7 Oct 2026) is the first run under the ten-channel method, applied to California: channel 3 (survivor archives) surfaced the pre-LPS Frank commitment and the Madness Network News / NAPA / Measure T line; channel 6 (adjacent instruments) surfaced jail suicide-watch findings, including a federal DOJ finding against Alameda County's John George hospital that upgrades the Batch 1 lead.
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Read the full source record →Leonard Roy Frank: commitment before California’s LPS Act
San Francisco, 1962–63
Leonard Roy Frank, 29, committed on a "paranoid schizophrenia" diagnosis and given about 50 insulin comas and 35 electroshocks; he later co-founded NAPA (Dec 1973) and edited The History of Shock Treatment
Read the recordThe survivor press that kept its own record
San Francisco / Berkeley, 1972–1986
Madness Network News founded 1972 by two women inmates of Agnews State Hospital, published to 1986; NAPA (Frank and Wade Hudson) organized protests that for a time stopped ECT in San Francisco; the movement began with the Insane Liberation Front (Portland, 1970)
Read the recordBerkeley’s vote to ban electroshock—and the legal challenge
Berkeley, Nov 1982
Coalition to Stop Electroshock (Ted Chabasinski, d. 6 Nov 2025) qualified Measure T; passed by a wide margin; the APA spent $15,000 against it; Chabasinski's argument was that California's ECT consent law was so laxly enforced a ban was needed
Read the recordWhat the Justice Department found in Alameda County
Alameda County, report 22 Apr 2021
US DOJ found constitutional and federal-law violations at John George Psychiatric Hospital and Santa Rita Jail, including placement of people with serious mental illness in restrictive housing, non-therapeutic suicide-watch conditions, and failure to provide…
Read the recordKern County: isolation on suicide watch
Kern County, 2010s
Hundreds placed each year in single cells 24 hours a day with no treatment and a yoga mat; a county official quoted calling it "punishment and humiliation"; one hanging inside a watch cell
Read the recordSanta Barbara’s jail safety cells
Santa Barbara County
Disability Rights California found inmates with mental illness held in windowless safety cells "three days at a time on a repeated basis," staff confirming placement was "not temporary"; the county called an outlier statewide
Read the recordSan Luis Obispo: a federal agreement on jail conditions
San Luis Obispo County, 2018–2021
Before disciplining a person with serious mental illness, staff must determine whether the conduct stemmed from illness; force and restraints "prohibited as punishment or retaliation"
Read the recordPsychiatric care in California immigration detention
California immigration detention facilities, 2025
Detainees receiving mental health care disciplined at a higher rate at some facilities; mental-health reviews not conducted before discipline or segregation; a facility failed to report
Read the recordSuffolk County: a suicide-watch verdict
Suffolk County, New York (E.D.N.Y.)
Statistical analysis showed people in disciplinary housing were more likely to be placed and kept on suicide watch after clinicians ordered release; the plaintiff remained longer than 96% of comparable inmates
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