This legal abuse sounds just like something a psychiatrist control freak would create. Through campaign contributions to the elected criminal class the drug industry working with the courtesan-psychiatric industry made laws like these to control their clients. Knowing that the entire psychiatric industry is personal opinion masquerading as science, they must maintain lack of accountability for their extreme otherwise criminal abuses. Not mentioned in this report are the abuses of police power to force citizens into these hell-holes masquerading as hospitals in order to silence their complaints about political, economic and personal criminal acts.
[From article]
"Slip and fall in a New York prison, or suffer abuse by its guards, and inmates can keep whatever they win in court. But for patients in state-run mental hospitals — people too ill to live on their own and too poor to pay for their care — the state can drain court-awarded damages, effectively deducting the cost of their stays in the very hospitals that failed or abused them.
“It’s a Catch-22, isn’t it?” said Leo G. Finucane, the lawyer who represented Mr. Langevin. “I need to go to this facility because I’m sick. But if they hurt me worse, they’re immune.”
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo’s office, which handles these kinds of cases for New York State, declined repeated requests to discuss the matter."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/nyregion/25damages.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Hospitals Send Bill if Mental Patients Win Suits
By ALISON LEIGH COWAN
New York Times
Published: December 24, 2010
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