AP Exclusive: Hawaii psychiatric hospital had 17 escapes
November 17, 2017
HONOLULU (AP) — More than a dozen escapes have occurred over the past eight years at a Hawaii psychiatric hospital where a patient who admitted killing a woman decades ago walked off the grounds and made it to California before he was captured.
Many of the 17 escapes between 2010 and this year happened when a patient broke "curfew" and didn't return to the Hawaii State Hospital after being allowed to leave for a period of time, according to information obtained by The Associated Press from police and the state Department of Health.
Randall Saito, the 59-year-old man who left the hospital...
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