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Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn 5-year prison term for Hawaii psychiatric hospital escape A man who spent decades in a Hawaii psychiatric hospital for killing a woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for escaping form the facility By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press May 7, 2021, 4:09 AM • 3 min read The Associated Press FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2017, file photo, escaped hospital patient Randall Saito points to a guard as he sits in an inmate visitor's booth at San Joaquin County Jail before a scheduled court hearing in French Camp, ...

Record news services HONOLULU — A man who spent decades in a Hawaii psychiatric hospital for killing a woman was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for escaping from the facility in 2017 and flying to California, then fleeing to Stockton before he was captured. In November 2017, authorities said Randall Saito walked out of Hawaii State Hospital, where he was sent in 1981 after he was acquitted of murder by reason of insanity in the 1979 killing of Sandra Yamashiro. After leaving the hospital, Saito called a taxi that took him to the airport, where boarded a chartered flight to Maui...