In 1980 psychiatrists decided that his illness was in remission and he was returned to Alaska under the supervision of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute.
In thirteen years of public service to the State of Alaska, Prewitt served as the Director of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Corrections and Assistant Alaska Attorney General.
In June, 2006, in a case that Gottstein argued before the Alaska Supreme Court, Myers v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute, the court ruled that Alaska's forced drugging procedures were unconstitutional.
In 2005 and 2006 he finished two large scale site specific paintings "Alaska Time-Lapse" and "Views of Tundra" for the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, commissioned by Alaska Arts Council.
Alaska | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | California Institute of Technology | Art Institute of Chicago | Institute for Advanced Study | American Institute of Architects | Georgia Institute of Technology | Anchorage, Alaska | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Rochester Institute of Technology | Franklin Institute | Royal Institute of Technology | Pasteur Institute | Institute of Contemporary Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British Film Institute | Alaska Highway | Pratt Institute | National Cancer Institute | Virginia Military Institute | Fairbanks, Alaska | Cato Institute | Australian Institute of Sport | Illinois Institute of Technology | Curtis Institute of Music | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | American Psychiatric Association | Royal Institute of British Architects | National Institute of Standards and Technology |