Man sues regional center, says misdiagnosis kept him locked up 20 years

A man who spent nearly 20 years in a locked mental health ward at the Lincoln Regional Center is suing doctors there for malpractice, saying they warehoused him "under the guise of treatment." John Maxwell Montin, 52, was released nearly a year ago after a regional center doctor acknowledged he’d been misdiagnosed from the beginning. Now he’s seeking more than $22 million in damages for incorrectly labeling him mentally ill, and unnecessarily holding him and subjecting him to treatments he didn’t need; $760,000 in lost wages; and $10 million in punitive damages.