Friday, January 3, 2020

Judicial Trick or Mental Health Treatment?

This article was written 6 months ago about mental health and how the judiciary is weaponizing hospitals to cruely and unjustly punish sovereign patriots and US military veterans.

This is blowing me away! WOW!

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/diversity-inclusion/articles/2019/summer2019-race-mental-health-poverty-incarceration-louisiana/ 

This hamster-wheel “treatment” creates mass detention of the mentally ill by allowing some to be forced into the purgatory of ineffective treatment and solitary confinement—forgotten about for most of their lives. Indeed, that is exactly what seems to have happened to a young, African American man named Lemon Howard in the 1960s and continues today through stories relating similar facts but bearing different names—Cadarius Johnson, a 16-year-old, mentally disabled African American, accused of attempting to kill a police officer and charged as an adult for attempted first-degree murder of a police officer, despite his mental illness and youthful age; Anthony Tellis and Bruce Charles, two prisoners who suffer from mental illnesses and who brought a lawsuit against Davide Wade Correction Center in Homer, Louisiana, outlining the lack of mental health treatment, frequent unaddressed suicide attempts, and inhumane treatment (one claim is that “mentally ill prisoners were forced to kneel or bend down and bark like dogs to get food”); and Louis Fano, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, had a history of self-harm, was sent to solitary confinement, was ordered to stop taking antipsychotic medication, and was found hanged in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. And there are countless others. See Raven Rakia, “New Orleans Wants to Make Its Notorious Jail Bigger,” Appeal, Apr. 15, 2019 (noting the untenable conditions at Orleans Parish Prison, where at least “28 suicide attempts” were made in January and February 2019).