The woman who shoved a child into the MAX train tracks has been sentenced to 10 years in psychiatric review, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.
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Yasui was a 26-year-old law school graduated in March 1942 when he decided to step out into the streets of Portland after dark in defiance of a curfew imposed on people of Japanese descent. The cell is on permanent display at Portland's Japanese American Museum of Oregon.
A federal judge upheld the decision to limit how long people charged with crimes can stay at the state’s public psychiatric facility with the goal of reducing the wait time to receive treatment.
It would be a herculean task to accomplish what the mayor is suggesting. One that would require changing laws. And to actually work, it would also mean addressing a workforce shortage of health care workers and law enforcement officers and necessitate resolving a statewide hospital and residential treatment bed shortage. Perhaps, more importantly, it would require another kind of reckoning as well: deciding whether this is the way the state and city want to tackle the mental health and homeless crisis.