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...
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...
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...
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...
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I want to share some good news with you! You are helping the imprisoned mental patients in America! When you read my articles, flag...
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...
The NYPD officer who gave the command to Taser psychiatric patient, Inman Morales, is dead. Shortly before 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, police Lt. Michael Pigott shot himself with a 9-millimeter Glock....
CITIZENS' OPINIONS were collected on whether acute mental patients should be imprisoned or hospitalized if their mental dysfunctions cause them to violate laws. The survey closed today, and I would like...
Detroit officials are to be commended for not trying to cover up problems in its justice system. My family would have preferred if our own justice struggle had been met with such open disclosure. ...
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...
This writer uses the symbol of two dogs on her articles because they represent Larry Morris Neal and Mary Neal. EVER HEARD OF CENSORSHIP? Ours is the most censored...
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...