Ancora is missing another patient

Ancora Psychiatric Hospital is once again missing a patient, this time a paranoid schizophrenic accused of trying to stab his mother with a screwdriver.

And once again, the Camden County facility failed to promptly disclose a problem with a patient.

Even Gov. Corzine was kept in the dark when he visited Ancora last week.

The latest missing patient, Rahim Harris, 28, of Brick, Ocean County, was due to return from an authorized leave on March 9. Corzine visited the following day.

Two criminally insane murderers escaped from Ancora last year.

In December, DeWitt Crandell Jr., who stabbed his parents to death in 1996, wandered off the grounds, taking advantage of court-ordered privileges. After being gone for just two hours, he was found naked, scratched and bleeding near Hammonton, Atlantic County.

He hanged himself with a bedsheet the following morning, despite supposedly being under constant observation.

Within days, Ancora's CEO and a security guard were removed from their jobs.

In early September, double murderer William Enman was the subject of a search for three days. He was finally discovered on the hospital grounds. In 1974, he killed his roommate and his roommate's 4-year-old son with a baseball bat.

Ancora was also recently scolded for not disclosing two recent deaths during hearings held by the Assembly Human Services Committee.

While those deaths may been from natural causes, a female patient was smothered to death by her roommate in July 2006, and six months later a man died after being punched in an argument over a cigarette.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.