Newspaper article from the Valley Advocate which talks about the aftermath of a Northampton State Hospital patient setting a fire that killed one elderly woman and severely burned another while she was out on a day pass from the hospital. Mayor David Musante used the event as a springboard to decry a consent decree which allows the Department of Mental Health to set up a network of community programs for clients. Rebecca Macauley is quoted in the article about the reaction of ex-patients to the demands of the mayor that investigations be conducted into the backgrounds of former patients who now live in the community.
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