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Show I Page A7 Thursday, December 21, 1995 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah Xj atients nv e in squalor CHICAGO (AP) II 11 IP . li HI ill i It Mentally ill in Illinois' patients psychiatric hospitals face filthy, unsafe conditions, sometimes lying in their own excrement or tied down for hours at a time, a d study of rvug "v The report, originally sealed by U.S. District Judge Brian Duff, was released only after The Associated Press began legal proceedings seeking disclosure of the court-ordere- the system said. In a scathing indictment of the Department of Mental Health and - I I Snow shuttle Young, 13, drags his brother Justin 12 a road near Lafayette, Ind., Tuesday. The ; rtichard ;wn kids found a creative way to enjoy the fresh By ALYSSA GABBAY "Associated Press Writer Pittsburgh it may have one of the most unusual introductions ever offered. I 'When Nobel Prize laureate and focaust survivor Elie Wiesel kke in Pittsburgh last week, the lead Of Pittsburgh-base- d Bayer been lec-aiS- re Cfp.' t introduced him. Helge i'ehmeier, a native of Germany, ipoiogized to Wiesel for the deaths (jalised by his corporation's prede-Csduring World War II. sorrow and regret and have "I ; apologize for the inhumanity in my country and for what I.G. did to your people," he said as die "audience of 1,800 sat in rapt or Wehmeier what had happened. Wehmeier then visited Wiesel at his New York apartment. "I was very moved by the man," Wiesel told the Pittsburgh "I explained to him The judge commissioned the report, paid for by the ACLU and the department, in 1993. The ACLU used a nearly identical suit in 1988 to win reforms at the Department of Children and Family Services. Mike spokesman Edgar Lawrence said Wednesday that the governor has been improving the state's mental hospitals. "The Illinois system was not created overnight and there is no court-supervis- ed j Mental Health Center was tied I y down in restraints for 24 hours at a time. In three of five private residential centers where the state places some patients, t some were found lying in their; own excrement and urine. ; In one residential centers,,-patientwore only skimpy gowns that reached no lower than their !, waists. full-bod- s ! Therapists had meaningful'' 101 umv pians ....... . jr. c 01 me patients siuuieu. nanaiui posi-uiscnar- I. 1 W0 Entire stock of fleece in our Sports Section Helge Wehmeier, head of Bayer Corp. I.G. Farben, factories gize?' "Right then, I knew he would do it, and do it well," Wiesel said. including firing the Holocaust One at which Wiesel worked as a teenager. IGF also had a significant investment in a company that made Zyklon B gas, used to kill hundreds of thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, where Wiesel's mother and sister died. J;When Wiesel found out months $g9 that Bayer was a sponsor of the lecture, he decided to cancel the engagement. ! Dennis Ciccone, director of the fhree Rivers Lecture Series, told Wehmeier spoke last Wednesday of his "shock and shame" at learning of the actions of the Nazi regime. "I'd like a future relationship between Germans and Jews that will not solely be defined by Hitler," he said. Wiesel noted that Wehmeier was who was born in 1943 for the actions hardly responsible of his forefathers. "It's not your fault that I.G. Farben was guilty," he said in his lecture. mm. HI Ski Ohio judge pleads guilty to distributinq cocaine A countCLEVELAND ( AP) y3 judge who favored legalizing drugs yet said only an idiot would ijse them has pleaded guilty to disputing cocaine. Michael Gallagher, 39, pleaded luilty Tuesday in federal court. He Kices as much as 20 years in prison, a maximum $1 million in ijnes and the possible loss of his license. was released on bond and Ordered to report to a substance Ijaw f He program. "Judge Gallagher has confronted his problem and looks forward tp the day when he can once again rhake a positive contribution to spciety," said his lawyer, Mark ijbuse who was elected to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in 1990, has no listed tfie governor's spokesman regret and apologize for the inhumanity in my country." parent company, Bayer itj, was part of the German chem- Marein. I Gallagher, j ' "I have sorrow and the situation. And I said to him, 'Look, Bayer never apologized.' I said it straight out. "And he said, 'What if I apolo- ical conglomerate tyhich ran slave-labo- r t j rf sifencd i - Bayer's J. Vs. Post-Gazett- e. i Far-Ijej- snow-fa- il that canceled school. lead of Bayer apologizes for Holocaust involvement Mike Lawrence, profound disrespect. The report compared some parts of the system to "the back wards of state psychiatric hospitals of 30 years ago." "Our state hospitals violent, are the poorly run institutions most graphic examples of a mental health system which simply does not do the job," said Ben Wolf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of patients against the department and Gov. Jim AP Photo 11 The experts tracked 48 people through the mental health system, Among their findings: A female patient at the Elgin "There is no mental health system in the country that was reformed overnight." Disabilities, Developmental experts commissioned as part of a lawsuit said patients receive scant treatment while in the department's care and are subjected to ' mental health system in the coun- try that was reformed overnight," r Lawrence said. Edgar. '" J5 ' 4 telephone, so he could not be reached for comment. Gallagher was arrested Aug. 3 when he invited an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent to snort a line of cocaine during a drug deal at the judge's home, federal officials said. The Ohio Supreme Court will determine his future as a judge and lawyer after sentencing, which has not been set. He was suspended from the bench at the time he was lf charged. Asked once during a newspaper interview whether he had used drugs, Gallagher responded, "Let's say it's been a long time, and make any implication you want to. Anyone who uses drugs is an idiot, but I do not feel it is an illegal matter." 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