Human Rights Group Calls For Oregon State Hospita Salem To Come Clean on Abuses and Negligence in Skye Baskin Death
State Hospital Salem Oregon Oregon Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) Calls for deeper dive into Oregon State Hospital's Involvement in death of Skye Baskin. Oregon’s mental health system may be responsible for a 27-year-old man’s death last month. Skye Edward Baskin, a Black man who was, according to family members, likely homeless, had been arrested in Roseburg in March for wandering in and out of traffic on the freeway. The Executive Director of the Group, Steven Mas one said, "It's like 'One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest' all over again." Masone referred to the Jack Nicholas Movie that was based on a true story at the old State Hospital, now a Museum. " Where there's smoke, there is fire, and we want transparenncy on illegal forced therapies like ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy. and Psych Drugs meant to control and not treat" Steven Masone was intrumental in the California Bill AB 1032 in 1976 that outlawed forced ECT when he was previ...
