(Illustration special to the Enterprise by Katherine Lam)
After Sean Rieschel punched a woman at a laundromat for refusing to give him $3.50, he was found “guilty except for insanity” in 2010 and sent to the Oregon State Hospital.
There, he was treated for bipolar and substance-use disorders — help he would not have received in prison if he’d been convicted of assault — and twice improved enough to live in group homes.
But in 2015, the state’s Psychiatric Security Review Board abruptly released Rieschel, ending the state’s . . .
