This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3BC.2ACE/1668.1 Message Board Post: Eastern & Western State Hospitals are institutions for the criminally insane, so don't know if they use the term patient or inmate. You might also try the Department of Corrections in Olympia WA because if he was an inmate he could have been transferred from the hospital to prison. There is also a Veteran's Home in Retsil, WA, near Port Orchard in Kitsap County. Their zip code is 98378. I am trying to find when they opened, so will pass that on later.