Actress Killer Stabbed in Ione Prison Yard

California Sunshine · #1 07-27-2007, 09:50 PM

The man who shot and killed TV actress Rebecca Schaeffer 18 years ago was stabbed eleven times this morning on an exercise yard at Mule Creek State Prison.

More: http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=30840

Tricksie2645 · #2 07-27-2007, 10:51 PM

Thanks for posting.

**Imani** · #3 07-28-2007, 10:57 AM

Thanks for posting that article. I remember that story well and wondered what happened Robert Bardo meaning,what prison he was send to serve his time.

Here is another article on this story
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3107102.shtml

Patrickj · #4 07-30-2007, 04:09 PM

This took place on the SNY, I don't believe from what I have been told that this action was due to his offense. Other issues are involved here

docswife · #5 08-01-2007, 12:39 AM

Have you all read the comments....OMG these people have no sense, no wonder our prisons are the way they are....
I guess ignorance is bliss.....

Morris1 · #6 08-01-2007, 10:11 AM

I had not read the comments. I posted on after reading them. Ignorance is frustrating. It probably won't be read because the article is too old, but oh well.

Ant's Girl · #7 08-01-2007, 09:04 PM

This is crazy!

Tricksie2645 · #8 08-01-2007, 10:18 PM

Good post Morris1. Is everyone really insane? This is where Spitzer gets his backing. Maybe we have the wrong ones locked up. Let's put that CO and his roach remark in SHU for a year or so, that way he can talk from the other side.

docswife · #9 08-01-2007, 10:23 PM

Tricksie....Amen girl.....
I was real up set when I read that one....I feel sorry for anyone who he is around....
Morris....you can never tell who will just happen to read it...the fact that it's still up maybe someone is looking at it....

Morris1 · #10 08-01-2007, 10:26 PM

nightbird · #11 08-01-2007, 10:46 PM

Let me get on my soapbox here, sorry Ronald Regan fans but when he closed all those state run mental facilities in the 1980s this is what happens. If you Ever saw interviews with this guy he was clearly mentally disturbed, but of course throw him in a max sec prison population and there you go. Alot of these people may very well be violent but have untreated mental illness and there is no where to house them but prison.
This guy should of been in a max sec. mental health facility.
CNN just recently did a special on Mental Health and the closing of the hospitals all over the nation. Okay I will get off my soap box now.

Morris1 · #12 08-02-2007, 12:42 AM

You are correct. I don't remember the reasons for the closures but it must have been money like everything else. We always seem to have plenty when it comes to war and giving it to other countries though. We seem to have alot of mentally ill people in this country so I would imagine it would be quite expensive. They need to bring these facilities back. We are letting people die in mental institutions from neglect and also in our prisons. It is criminal how we treat our own.

Tricksie2645 · #13 08-02-2007, 01:03 AM

I think it was money, but the reason that was given was that it would be more beneficial for the patient to be served in their home community. the problem was there were no programs for them in the community. In what seems like another lifetime, I happened to be working in a jail at that time. As soon as the doors of the hospital closed behind the last patient, we started seeing them coming into the jail. Everyone at the time knew they shouldn't be there, but there wasn't (and still isn't) any place for them to go. I remember one poor woman who would strip down and literally start swinging from the bars when a particular song would play. Really sad then, and now many thousands are in prison. One of the problems,I think, was that the hospitals were old and needed a lot of "expensive" updating, so that was the fix...close 'em down. By the way, the state still has a hard time giving local programs enough money to provide needed services. Is the soapbox big enough for two? Sorry

Morris1 · #14 08-02-2007, 10:35 AM

So the idea wasn't bad, but the community services broke down. I understand. That is really sad.

**Imani** · #15 08-02-2007, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nightbird

Let me get on my soapbox here, sorry Ronald Regan fans but when he closed all those state run mental facilities in the 1980s this is what happens. If you Ever saw interviews with this guy he was clearly mentally disturbed, but of course throw him in a max sec prison population and there you go. Alot of these people may very well be violent but have untreated mental illness and there is no where to house them but prison.
This guy should of been in a max sec. mental health facility.
CNN just recently did a special on Mental Health and the closing of the hospitals all over the nation. Okay I will get off my soap box now.

It's called Reaganomics. Sure I give the man his probs for ending the cold war but,he did nothing but chip away at the Unions,Ignored the AIDS Crisis and closed mental health facilities he did this while he was Governor and President. In turn he created a lot of homeless people and mentally ill walking the streets that are not getting any treatment and committing crimes.

When Ronald Reagan was governor of California he systematically began closing down mental hospitals, later as president he would cut aid for federally-funded community mental health programs. It is not a coincidence that the homeless populations in the state of California grew in the seventies and eighties. The people were put out on the street when mental hospitals started to close all over the state.
Seeing an increase in crime, and brutal murders by Herb Mullin, a mental hospital patient, the state legislature passed a law that would stop Reagan from closing even more state-funded mental health hospitals. But Reagan would not be outdone. In 1980, congress proposed new legislation (PL 96-398) called the community mental health systems act (crafted by Ted Kennedy), but the program was killed by newly-elected President Ronald Reagan. This action ended the federal community mental health centers (see timeline on this link) program and its funding.

Yep, I'm old enough to remember all of that. And sad to say our Prisons are the new mental hospitals.