Murder at Central State Hospital

A patient at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville has been arrested and charged with the murder of a fellow patient. The suspected killer was in the mental facility awaiting trial for another murder, and after being booked on the latest murder charges, he's back at the hospital.
Thirty year-old Saleeban Adan allegedly murdered Christopher Yates. Yates' body was found Sunday night in his room. He died from strangulation and blunt force trauma.
The murder took place in the Cook Building. It's where the state houses criminal defendants who are also mentally ill. On the outside it looks like a prison, but on the inside it's more like a hospital according to the GBI's Marc Mansfield who is helping investigate the murder.

"They're at liberty to go and visit with the other clients that are being housed there. The rooms themselves are not locked at all times and so one client could go and you know, visit and see another client."

Police say this may be Saleeban's third murder, and at issue is why he is still being allowed such close contact with fellow patients.
Saleeban was sent to Central State three months ago for evaluation after being accused of killing his cellmate in the Dekalb County Jail. He was in that jail awaiting trial on separate murder charges.
In 2001 he was found incompetent to stand trial in that murder, but seven years later a state psychologist ruled him competent. Later on another psychologist reversed that decision.
Saleeban was booked into the Baldwin County Jail in Milledgeville and then returned to Central State Hospital.

Middle Georgia prison to close

The Georgia Department of Corrections is closing Rivers State Prison in Milledgeville. The 11-hundred bed facility will shut down by October. Inmates will be sent to prisons across the state. Most of the 260 employees will be offered jobs at other facilities nearby. The prison, built in 1937, was originally part of Central State Hospital. Meanwhile, prison officials say they plan to add 3,000 beds this year across the state to accommodate Georgia’s growing prison population. Nearly 60,000 inmates are incarcerated in Georgia.