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 First, the good news: Scott Hamilton has his wheelchair back.Hamilton, a homeless disabled man known as One-legged Scottie, was discharged from Multnomah County's downtown jail earlier this week without his chair and ended up sliding out of the jail lobby on his bottom -- prompting an internal investigation into how that could happen.Next, the bad news: Hamilton is back in jail.Here's what happened:Just after noon Wednesday, mounted Portland patrol officers came across Hamilton at his preferred spot outside the Rite-Aid near the corner of Southwest Alder Street and Sixth Avenue. He was sitting and drinking a can of beer on the sidewalk, the same misdemeanor he was cited for Sunday night when he was arrested on a warrant for drinking in public. They handed him a ticket.Around the same time, a Portland police sergeant was picking up Hamilton's wheelchair and knapsack at the police property warehouse in Northwest Portland to deliver to him, said police spokesman Pete Simpson. They had been confiscated when he was arrested Sunday.The sergeant arrived at the corner just as a pair of Multnomah County sheriff's deputies were preparing to usher Hamilton, 37, into their car to take him to a hearing for failing to appear in court for an earlier drinking citation.The judge ended up putting Hamilton back into custody on a contempt of court warrant and sentenced him to 24 hours in jail, authorities said.What happens next?Rep. Julie Parrish, a Republican representing Tualatin and West Linn, said she ranted on the House floor about Hamilton's predicament. She told fellow lawmakers: "Let's fix this."Staffers called the state Department of Veterans' Affairs to determine whether Hamilton qualifies for medical and other services. He served in the Navy in Iraq, according to both Hamilton and his father, Frank Hamilton, a retired police officer and sheriff's deputy in Washington state.Simpson said police also hope to see the chronic offender get the help he needs. "We have facilitated Scottie getting his things and getting him to court," he said. "Now we'll hope to plug him into some services -- if he's willing to embrace them."-- Kimberly A.C. Wilson ||||| Jail workers in Portland, Ore., discharged a one-legged homeless man without his wheelchair Monday morning after a citation for consuming alcohol in public. 
  
 The security officers apparently watched as Scott Hamilton, 37, used his hands to scoot out of the jail on his butt and head out into the dark street about 1 a.m. 
  
 Hamilton then made his way to a convenience store about three blocks away where girlfriend Eve Browne picked him up, she said. 
  
 "It was just over the top, beyond being disrespectful or inconsiderate. It was just negligence," Browne said of the treatment Hamilton received from the Multnomah County Detention Center. 
  
 Hamilton has rheumatoid arthritis, and his hands were swollen and purple after making the trek, Browne said. 
  
 Officials have since returned the wheelchair to Hamilton. 
  
 Portland police arrested Hamilton Sunday night. He was given a receipt for his belongings, including the wheelchair, when he was booked into jail. 
  
 Hamilton has battled alcoholism since his early 20s, according to his father, Frank Hamilton, and lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. Police said he has been arrested at least 10 times since January. 
  
 His personal wheelchair is usually held at the jail and Hamilton is given a loaner. But Hamilton's personal wheelchair was taken away this time to an off-site storage facility. 
  
 When it came time for discharge, his wheelchair was unavailable. When the loaner chair was taken away from him, Hamilton became angry. He stormed out of the jail on his hands, as a security officer held the door open for him. 
  
 "This was kind of a miscommunication," chief deputy of corrections Michael Shults said. Shults, who works for the sheriff's office, added that policies and training practices will likely change to ensure this doesn't happen again. 
  
 "We want people to be able to get home safely," he said. 
  
 Today, Hamilton -- who could not be reached for comment -- is back on the streets panhandling, but still without his wheelchair. Shults is working to return the wheelchair to Hamilton and an investigation of the incident has been launched. 
  
 "We don't want this to ever happen again," Mary Lindstrand, public information officer for the sheriff's office, said. 
  
 Lindstrand said the poor treatment of Hamilton has overshadowed all the positive things the sheriff's office does. That will be particularly noticeable tonight when the sheriff's office is scheduled to give out 31 awards during its annual awards ceremony. 
  
 Neil Donovan, the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, said that incidents such as Hamilton's are all too common. 
  
 A Washington, D.C., homeless man was forced out of his wheelchair and tackled by police Sunday as they arrested him. Video capturing the event shows police rough-handling the man, who has blood spewing from his head from the fall. 
  
 Donovan said that while law enforcement officials certainly have a role in situations such as these, the problem is rooted much deeper and stems from policies aimed at getting homeless people off the streets rather than solving the cause of the homeless problem. 
  
 Donovan said that even after 31 years in the business, these events are still tough to accept. 
  
 "I feel a real sense of sadness for the individual who had to be humiliated and had their civil rights taken away," he said. "Injustice seems to never grow old or allow you to become accustomed to it." |||||
Output:
A one-legged homeless man in Portland was left to drag himself out of jail over the weekend because his wheelchair had been moved to an off-site storage facility after he was picked up on a drinking citation. "Scottie" Hamilton, a 37-year-old Iraq veteran who lost his leg in a motorbike accident, has been arrested some 10 times this year. Police usually return his wheelchair on release after taking away his loaner and they are investigating what went wrong this time, ABC News reports. "It was over the top, beyond being disrespectful or inconsiderate. It was negligence," said his girlfriend, adding that Hamilton has arthritis and his hands were left swollen and purple after he used them to push himself along on his butt to leave jail. Police who tried to return Hamilton's wheelchair to him yesterday arrived just as other officers were arresting him for failing to appear in court for an earlier drinking citation, the Oregonian reports. Police and a state lawmaker who was outraged to hear about the case are working to help Hamilton access social services.