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Show Sunday, April 6, 2008 DAILY HERALD B8 Mggc? a We:- - ' 1 AL An ..21 LlGCGivGr? Discover the Foror of Points When you Sign-u- p For "Most people are surprised at how active they are in treatment and classes and learning, Continued from Bl and that they can sit and talk a locked control booth. Guards and interact." Doctors are adept at quickly are not posted, and security appears minimal. Earnshaw says zeroing in on the right medication for each patient, Earnshaw violence is rare. Doctors work to make some forensic patients says. The focus then turns to well enough to stand trial, while teaching them to manage their medications and understand staff members school them in how the court system works. why they need to keep taking them. Even though they may still Earnshaw said some menhave symptoms of mental ai-ness, a patient may be deemed tally ill people don't take their medications for a variety of competent if he or she understands the court process, the reasons, including a perception that they are not ill, concerns potential penalties and can interact with his or her attorney . about side effects and an inabilAnother category of foren-si- c ity to pay for them. Because mental illness still patients are there because carries a certain stigma, Earnthey have been found "guilty and mentally ill" and are being shaw said, some patients would rather be considered "bad than treated prior to transfer to the mad." prisoa The emphasis is different Opened in 1885 as the Utah Territorial Insane Asylum, the for the hospital's 72 children, hospital was "a human wareages 6 to 17, and the nearly 200 adults sent there on civil house," according to literature commitments. For the civilly prepared by hospital historian Janina Chilton. committed, the hospital provides treatment, education "Therapeutic care was aland training to allow patients , most unknown," says Chilton, and many forms of treatment to successfully return to their communities. would, by today's standards, be The hospital's "Treatment considered punishment. Mall" has classes ranging from Chilton has collected a variceramics and physical recreety of treatment devices from ation to money management the hospital's past, including a coffin-lik- e barred bed for paand vocational rehaMitatioa "We are trying to get them tients with sleeping disorders back home," Earnshaw says. and a chunk of metal "One of the biggest misconcepthat was worn around an ankle tions is that the patients are to prevent escape. Those and other devices will dangerous and locked up and be part of a museum Chilton restrained, and that they are here for the rest of their lives. said the hospital hopes to open Hospital I n Acs Taking Reward Points 0 to the Next Level from Central Bank Opon o chcdiinrj account with debit card in April end vo'U give you 3,000 point Lake Tribuna left and Brandina Veater control doors and all access to the Forensic Unit Utah State Hospital on March 25. Kevin Jackman Or Mayba Oc Gift Cards F. Special Scr.: crn HARTMANNSatt at on the grounds this summer. During its first 70 years of operation, given the lack of medical knowledge, "the facility was little more than a human warehouse," according to Chilthe hospiton. By the tal's population exceeded 1,500, and patients slept in crowded wardrooms and hallways. But in 1956, new medications like Thorazine revolutionized the field of psychiatry by reducing or eliminating psychotic thinking in some patients, and insulin therapy and electro- - ' shock therapy were discontinmid-1950- s, ued. ::j During her four years at - Utah State Hospital, Wanda Barzee, one of Elizabeth Smart's alleged kidnappers, has refused all treatment. Her husband, Brian David Mitchell, also has made no progress during his three-yea- r stay. Mitchell, a self proclaimed prophet, and Barzee supposedly planned to make Elizabeth a plural wife after allegedly kidnapping her from her home in 2002. Barzee has taken vows of silence that make the doctors' jobs especially challenging. Mitchell, who has also refused treatment, sings and yells when he appears in court. 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