Article: KID RAPIST MOVED OUT OF CARSTAIRS; EXCLUSIVE Fears over beast in less-secure unit.(News)

Article: Health boards face lawsuits over lack of alternatives to ...
The Scotsman;  May 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... entrapped" in Carstairs. Patients - including ... go. Dr Donald Lyons, director of the ... are entrapped in Carstairs. Dr Lyons said the wait causes ... patient is still in Carstairs after this they ... community, Dr Lyons said. At the moment ...

Article: Concern at plans to downsize Carstairs HEALTH: LEGISLATION ...
The Sunday Herald;  August 6, 2006 ;     662 words ... ... high-security beds at Carstairs will be replaced by eight ... Adamson, chief executive at Carstairs and leader of the Forensic ... becoming "entrapped" in Carstairs, welcomed the plans. Director Dr Donald Lyons said: "It is essential ...

Article: McConnell urged to free violent criminal from mental hospital ...
The Sunday Herald;  August 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... went on the run from Carstairs, in Lanark, after being ... the letter, Dr Donald Lyons, the commission's ... release from the hospital. Lyons writes: "The Commission ... the State Hospital." Lyons adds: "We consider ... reason he was admitted to Carstairs was because he faked ...

Article: Killer who says he faked mental illness to go free; ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  August 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... sent to the State Hospital at Carstairs, Lanarkshire, without limit ... in the hospital. Experts at Carstairs back his case and are urging ... it emerged that Dr Donald Lyons, director of the Mental Welfare ... that he should be freed from Carstairs. He said: 'The commission ...

Article: Legal threat from Carstairs' patients
Evening Times;  May 23, 2006 ;     308 words ... ... from 20 mentally ill patients who are demanding a move from Carstairs. Patients, including murders and rapists, have the right ... patients to wait for more than two years for a move. Dr Donald Lyons, director of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland ...

Article: Catherine Carstairs on the racist roots of Canada's drug ...
The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... with stones and bricks. Another crowd attacked the Japanese quarter. The government sent Deputy Minister of Labour William Lyon Mackenzie King to investigate the riots and the claims for compensation. King, a temperance supporter, was shocked when a ...

Article: Carstairs patients set for transfer to Capital
Evening News - Scotland;  September 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... MENTALLY ill offenders are to move from Carstairs State Hospital to a new secure psychiatric ... the top level of security provided at Carstairs. Lothian Primary Care Trust, which ... providing alternatives for patients at Carstairs who do not need to be in a high-security ...