Kenneth Hass was 25 when he died at the state’s largest psychiatric hospital last year. His sister says the treatment he received amounted to torture.
A 25-year-old patient who died at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem last year was subjected to years of indifferent, substandard care and long stretches of solitary confinement that were tantamount to torture, according to a new lawsuit filed by the man’s sister.
Sierra Hass, the sister of former patient Kenneth Hass, filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the Oregon State Hospital and nearly 20 individual staffers of violating her brother’s constitutional rights for years, setting the conditions that led to his March 2025 death…