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...paid researchers conducted LSD experiments on prisoners at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Ky., the New Jersey reformatory in Bordentown and Michigan's Ionia State Hospital...
...wounded two, and was billed by local newspapers as "the phantom sniper." A psychiatrist testified in court that "he is unreasonably hostile toward women, and this makes it very possible that he might very well kill a person." Taylor was declared insane and committed to Michigan's Ionia State Hospital, and three years later was transferred to the Lafayette Clinic in Detroit...
...Detroit woman's home, then raped and robbed her. By the next year, out on another pass, he threatened a rooming-house manager and her daughter with an 18-inch butcher knife. He was not put on trial in either incident; instead he was sent back to Ionia. In 1972, Taylor was released from the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ypsilanti. Reason: under Michigan law, a person acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity cannot be kept indefinitely in a mental institution; he must be periodically certified mentally ill and dangerous to himself or the community...
...Louis Smith, 37, once attacked a girl with a croquet post and later murdered and raped a student nurse. For the past 18 years he has been confined in Michigan's Ionia State Hospital as a "criminal sexual psychopath." Last year he was told that brain surgeons at the highly respected Lafayette Clinic in Detroit might be able to heal his apparently incurable condition by psychosurgery, a controversial technique in which portions of the brain are destroyed (TIME, April 3, 1972). Smith agreed, but just before the planned operation, an activist attorney heard about it and filed a class...
...before the tests were completed, Gabe Kaiminowitz, a civil liberties lawyer, filed a suit which claimed that the patients transferred from Ionia to Lafayette were being held involuntarily. The three-member court agreed to hear the case, and said it would decide on the constitutionality of Mr. L.'s confinement, and would also rule on the broader issue of psychosurgery...