President Obama, Please Stop Prison Torture Within the U.S., Too

THE VIDEO at the link below shows how important one of President Obama's first presidential acts was in signing executive orders to outlaw torture and close Guantánamo Bay.  But the prison torture...

Review of America’s Mental Health Care Advancements During 2008

Yearend is a good time to take stock of advancements and set new goals.  Health advocates likely agree that 2008 was very positive for mental health law.  For one thing, President-elect Obama won the...

Oregon Man Murders His Sister

One day during the first week of November, Joseph F. Rockwood killed his adoring sister, Theresa.  He stabbed her to death.  Theresa's body was found in Joseph's apartment on November 7, after a...

Torture Mentally Ill~ 9 mo. Solitary Confinement in Filth, Naked

This report includes a shocking VIDEO of an alleged prison torture in Metro Nashville Detention Facility, which is operated by the for-profit Corrections Corporation of America.  This...

Mental Health Parity Is Now Law of the Land

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER (TAC)Monday, October 6, 2008 Mental Health Parity is Now Law After more than 10 years in the making, the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and...

Mentally Disturbed? Taser coming right up!

TASERING is becoming as usual as handcuffs for police officers when they encounter mentally dysfunctional citizens in America.  Sometimes mental patients are killed by gunshot, even when they...

Brain Dead Inmate Denied Early Release

AMERICA IMPRISONS approximately 2.3 million of its citizens.  Incarceration is certainly one of those situations that my grandma used to refer to, saying, "It's heaps easier gettin' in trouble...