51.   Ray had been ordered out of the state hospital earlier Wednesday by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Mangum.

52.   Rivera, the Bainbridge Island resident, questions the effectiveness of treatment provided at state hospitals and mental facilities.

53.   Saluni was committed to a state hospital, probably for life, after a plea agreement declaring him not guilty by reason of insanity for second-degree murder.

54.   She was committed to a state hospital in Florida.

55.   She lives in her own apartment, not the back ward of a state hospital in Mississippi, where life has the ambience of a stopped-up toilet.

56.   So, Maturana remains on the grounds of the state hospital, receiving just enough medication to maintain his mental stability but not enough to improve it.

57.   State hospitals are under pressure, too, she said.

58.   State records show that Brooklyn sends more mentally ill patients to state hospitals than almost any other county in the state.

59.   State officials estimate that one-third of state hospital patients could be discharged if housing were available.

60.   That differs from existing civil-commitment provisions, which involve retention in state hospitals until doctors authorize a release.