Family recalls ‘worst nightmare’ as second death tied to mainland facility

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Hawaii News Now has learned of another mental patient death tied to a mainland facility contracted by the state health department.

Curtis Panoke was sent to the Columbia Regional Care Center from the state hospital in 2010 after multiple assaults. In 2016, other patients there beat him into a coma and he died last year.

His family is suing the facility and the state…

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