Subject: Austin State Hospital

• The Lost Houston of Sig Byrd

  November 10, 1994

• Don't Laugh At a Legend Roky Erickson emerges from the cacophony with his first new album in a decade

  March 2, 1995

• What Really Happened To Rodeny Hulin?

  August 7, 1997

• Raw and Wonderful

  August 6, 1998

• Gone to Hell: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail

  Even though Alexander Hatcher is bipolar and schizophrenic, he wasn't given his meds for his first three months in jail. He got in fights with the guards. Now he's sentenced to prison for a long, long time.

  August 21, 2008

• Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

  Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.

  May 8, 2008

• Catholic Priests, Child Protective Services, Crooked Contractors and Crowded Kasra

  Mail Call

  November 22, 2007

• Urban Jungle Jim

  Downtown's alive again -- thanks in part to a pioneering artist named Pirtle

  May 5, 2005

• Super Vision

  By keeping a constant eye on its mentally ill clients, an ACT team heads off all sorts of troubles

  February 22, 2001

• Lost Legends

  Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

  January 13, 2000