Judge: Paul Will Stay At Hospital

A state judge ruled Friday that Phillip A. Paul, the criminally committed Eastern State Hospital patient whose escape during a September field trip to the Spokane County Interstate Fair outraged residents and led to changes in state policy, should be stripped of his right to live away from the hospital campus. Paul, who has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, had been in and out of the hospital on court-approved conditional release several times since killing a 78-year-old Sunnyside, Wash., woman in 1987 during a psychotic episode. His last conditional release ended in January 2009, when the managers of the Carlyle Care Center asked the state to remove Paul from the downtown Spokane halfway house. His behavior had become erratic and aggressive because he was not taking his medications/ John Stucke , SR. More here .

Question: Has the state of Washington done a good job correcting problems that enabled insane killer Phillip Paul to escape during a field trip to the Spokane fair?