Subject: Rusk State Hospital

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

  March 2, 1995

• 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

• Beggars Can't Be Choosers

  Parents plead with the state not to shut down the state schools for the mentally retarded. But it looks like a done deal.

  November 18, 2004

• The Icebox Revisited

  Houston had one of its most shocking race murders 45 years ago. But exactly whose tragedy was it?

  March 11, 2004

• Hands On

  When the sickest of Harris County's mentally ill break down, an ACT team is there to pick up the pieces and put them back together again

  February 22, 2001

• Downing

  Texas Lottery. Let's buy our tickets and bet on the day that Robert Arthur Pearson finally kills himself in public while we all watch

  November 25, 1999

• Trouble in Mind

  Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

  July 8, 1999

• The Eagle Has Landed

  Rocks Off only listens to Houston rock radio in small doses, but when we do it's usually of the classic variety. When our usual diet of AM talk radio veers into the right-wing ditch and becomes annoying instead of amusing, we pretty much shuffle between Country Legends 97.1 or the 93.7 the Arrow. On June 1, Houston's other classic rock station, 107.5 FM (KGLK), turned into an Arrow clone. Previously K-HITS, "the best of the '60s and '70s," it was rechristened the Eagle, "Houston's Classic Hits."

  June 18, 2009