New York City Corrections Officers Union Scrutinized By US Attorney

[From article]
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office appears to be focusing in part on claims in a union official’s lawsuit alleging the improper investment of union funds. Among the allegations in the lawsuit is that Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association President Norman Seabrook made a risky $5 million investment into an unnamed hedge fund last year without union board approval.
[. . .]
The investigation comes as Bharara negotiates a class-action lawsuit against the city claiming systemwide brutality against inmates by jail guards at the Rikers Island jail complex.
Abuse, neglect and corruption at Rikers have been the subject of increased media attention for more than a year after the AP first reported on claims of widespread brutality in the lockups and the gruesome deaths of mentally ill inmates.

http://nypost.com/2015/05/27/fbi-probing-nyc-jail-guards-union-over-investments/

FBI probing NYC jail guards union over investments
By Associated Press
New York Post
May 27, 2015 | 7:23pm

After Six Year Delay, Special Prosecutor Appointed, Guards At Psychiatric Hospital Indicted For Homicide of Patient

Josh Messler, 23, Died In Custody, After Brutal Guard Attack in Hospital

[From article]
Lisa Brown says there is finally justice for her late son Joshua Messier who was only 23 years old when he died while being restrained by guards at Bridgewater State Hospital six years ago.
Now three of those guards have been indicted, charged with manslaughter and civil rights violations.
“I’m thankful to God that finally, finally when it seemed like there wasn’t going to be any justice that there’s a first step,” said Lisa Brown.
Josh Messier suffered from schizophrenia. He was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital after staffers at a private hospital filed assault and battery charges.
A month later, the incident at Bridgewater was captured on video. Following his restraint, Messier died of heart failure.
“They piled on top of him. They pushed into his back. Apparently they folded him in half so he couldn’t breath,” Brown said.
Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz declined to press charges after what he called an exhaustive investigation.
But last year, Attorney General Martha Coakley reopened the case appointing a special prosecutor who decided to seek charges. Attorney Roderick MacLeish represented Joshua’s mother.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/01/bridgewater-state-hospital-guards-face-justice-for-patients-death/

Bridgewater State Hospital Guards Face Justice For Patient’s Death
May 1, 2015 6:48 PM

CBS News Boston MA
Jim Smith

Philadelphia Psychiatrist Shoots Patient Who Killed His Case Worker

Shock: Theresa Hunt was shot dead by Richard Plotts in a Philadelphia hospital on Thursday after an argument broke out and a gun battle ensued

[From article]
Psychiatrist Dr. Lee Silverman pumped three bullets into Plotts at the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania on Thursday after the patient had shot and killed caseworker Theresa Hunt.
Authorities say Plotts, 49, had been ranting about the hospital's no-gun policy when he pulled out his weapon.
Police found 39 unused rounds on Plotts and seized two more revolvers and a computer when they searched his home in Upper Derby, Pennsylvania.
Silverman, who has been hailed as a hero for his actions, crouched behind his desk, took out his own handgun and returned fire.
The hospital is unlikely to take action against Silverman for having the gun on the premises and says it will welcome him back to work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2707954/I-glad-shot-Ex-wife-psychiatric-patient-launched-deadly-hospital-gun-rampage-thanks-hero-doctor-returned-fire-stopped-him.html

'I am glad you shot him': Ex-wife of psychiatric patient who launched deadly hospital gun rampage thanks the hero doctor who returned fire and stopped him
Kimberly Heron has thanked Dr. Lee Silverman for shooting her ex-husband Richard Plotts on Thursday
Accused Plotts, 49, of abusive and violent behavior towards her over their marriage
Dr. Silverman returned fire at Plotts after he shot dead his caseworker, Theresa Hunt
Plotts stalked Heron after she ended their marriage which lasted more than a decade
By MARTIN GOULD
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 21:06 EST, 27 July 2014 | UPDATED: 06:23 EST, 28 July 2014

Remains Of 5,000 Mental Hospital Patients Identified

[From article]
Between 1913 and 1971, more than 5,300 people were cremated at the hospital.
Most were patients at the mental institution, but some died at local hospitals, the state tuberculosis hospital, a state penitentiary or the Fairview Training Center, where people with developmental disabilities were institutionalized.
Hospital officials have been working for years to reunite the remains of their former patients with surviving relatives. Since the urns were found by lawmakers on a tour of the hospital in 2005, 183 have been claimed.
The 3,409 that remain and have been identified are listed in a searchable online database. Thirty-eight urns will likely never be identified; they're unmarked, have duplicate numbers or aren't listed in ledgers of people cremated at the hospital.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2682798/The-forgotten-souls-One-Flew-Over-Cuckoos-nest-hospital-Thousands-died-cremated-notorious-asylum-no-one-claiming-remains.html

The forgotten souls of the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest hospital: Thousands who died and were cremated at notorious asylum with no one claiming their remains
The cremated remains of more than 3,500 people were found in the Oregon State Hospital about 10 years ago
The hospital was used in the filming of the Jack Nicholson film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Between 1913 and 1971, more than 5,300 people were cremated at the hospital
Most were patients at the mental institution, but some died at local hospitals, or the Fairview Training Center, where people with developmental disabilities were institutionalized
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and AP
PUBLISHED: 21:09 EST, 6 July 2014 | UPDATED: 03:05 EST, 7 July 2014

Thousands Of Bodies Found On Grounds of Former Mississippi Mental Hospital

[From article]
Officials now believe there may be as many as 2,000 century-old graves underneath the soil.
Archaeologists have been studying grave sites discovered on the UMC campus for some time; several dozen grave sites were discovered last year.
[. . .]

'The property that the University of Mississippi Medical Center is located on used to be the location of the state insane asylum, which operated from 1855 to 1935,' Mazurak said.
'Historically we knew that there were a lot of graves, many of which were not marked. In the '90s, we took the handful of marked graves and reinterred them in a designated cemetery area,' he said.
[. . .]
'We're guessing because there's no personal remains, no clothes, not even really any buttons or pins or anything, that they were probably residents of the asylum and either buried in a shroud or not buried with anything, so that would put them probably around in the mid to late 1800s to early 1900s,' said Anderson.
[. . .]

Moving the bodies would reportedly cost about $3 million so the University has said it will probably look at alternate sites for construction, rather than try to relocate the graves.
The expansion will most likely be relocated to another location on the 164-acre campus.
It's possible there could be more unmarked graves belonging to tuberculosis patients, former slaves, or possibly even Civil War dead, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
The State Lunatic Asylum opened on the site in 1855, housing 150 patients.
After the end of the Civil War, it expanded to house more than 300 residents in a district known as Asylum Hill.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556767/Workers-discover-1-000-corpses-site-old-mental-asylum.html

What lies beneath? Gruesome find as workers discover more than 1,000 corpses at site of old Mississippi mental asylum
University of Mississippi Medical Center had planned to build a parking garage east of the dental school
Testing in the area revealed 1,000 bodies, believed to have been patients at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum a century ago
Future expansion plans might be halted because other bodies may lie beneath the earth including former slaves, TB victims and possibly even Civil War dead
Staff have always known there was a cemetery associated with the old asylum somewhere on the property, but no one knew for sure where it was until now
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 10:36 EST, 11 February 2014 | UPDATED: 12:14 EST, 11 February 2014

Nevada Dumping Mental Patients in Other States

'Shipped off': James Brown, who was being treated for psychosis and schizophrenia in Nevada, was put on a one-way bus to California - where he knew no one - and told to call police when he got there

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2318967/Nevada-accused-patient-dumping-hospital-puts-schizophrenic-man-48-bus-California-tells-911-gets-there.html

Nevada accused of 'patient dumping' after hospital puts schizophrenic man, 48, on a bus to California and tells him to call 911 when he gets there
James Brown told doctors at the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital that he wanted to stay in Nevada and didn't know anyone in California
But they put him on a Greyhound bus to Sacramento with minimal food and medication and told him to call 911 when he arrived
He ended up in a homeless shelter suffering from medication withdrawals
His case has highlighted 'patient dumping'; he is one of 10 mental health patients sent to states where they know no one
By LYDIA WARREN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 12:27 EST, 3 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:53 EST, 3 May 2013

Las Vegas Released 1500 Mental Patients Who All Got Guns and Killed Thousands

Good-bye Las Vegas, Hello North Korea



1500 mental patients were released then they got guns and shot up theaters and schools killing 200,000 unarmed people? That explains why Democrats and control freaks want more psychiatry and  less guns. It is easier to ban mentally ill people. That would end all gun violence. Taxpayers would save money not having to provide treatment. Send mentally ill people to Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and North Korea, where they will be treated with the respect and care they deserve.

Good idea menckenlite...you go first. [Laura Bauer]

As the National Acting Director of What is Best for Mentally Ill American People I  send Mental Patients to those countries every month. They get free housing, food, and twice a week they get foot massages. I get $29.57 for each patient I send. 


http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/SF-City-Attorney-Looks-into-Allegations-of-Patient-Dumping-204226291.html

Las Vegas Hospital Accused of Dumping Psychiatric Patients in California
Health officials in Las Vegas are accusing of shipping patients on Greyhound buses with one-way tickets to California
By Beverly White and Julie Brayton
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013  |  Updated 5:42 AM PDT


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http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/14/5340078/nevada-buses-hundreds-of-mentally.html

Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country
By Cynthia Hubert, Phillip Reese and Jim Sanders
chubert (at) sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Apr. 14, 2013 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Sunday, Apr. 14, 2013 - 7:58 am

Testimony From Mental Patient Convicted of Murder

If there ever was an expert on legislation it is a self admitted mentally ill man convicted of killing another person. Who needs elections? Why not just allow persons found guilty and/or mentally ill to write the laws? They could not do any worse than the elected criminals class that writes them now.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/kendra_killer_law_too_weak_AEnfARCy1yeTKiOcwOGLXK

Kendra Webdale’s infamous subway-push killer says tougher laws needed
to prevent repeats
By JENNIFER BAIN Post Correspondent
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:02 AM, December 29, 2012
Posted: 12:56 AM, December 29, 2012

Killer Registered And Voted At Mental Hospital

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9635

Chapel Hill Killer Registered At and Voted From Mental Hospital
Dozens of mentally disabled registered in stepped-up efforts by state
By Don Carrington
Nov. 2nd, 2012

Control Freaks Want To Monitor Mental Patients

[From article]
"But while sex offenders are tracked and monitored via state and federal registries, no such publically-accessible tracking system exists for the violently mentally ill, including those who, like Essex, were found not responsible for violent crimes by reason of insanity, sent by judges' to psych wards, and then released years later."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rape_thug_killer_eYN5VbYdMscoxJziLyGIeJ

‘Rape’ thug a killer
Killed mom in ’84
By LAURA ITALIANO, HELEN FREUND and WILLIAM GORTA
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:27 AM, September 23, 2011
Posted: 2:57 AM, September 23, 2011

Criminals Care for CA Vulnerable

For some years MA allowed prisoners out on work release to watch patients at night in mental hospitals. There were thefts, rapes and assaults of patients who were ignored when they complained. It is unknown if the Bay State continues this practice.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homecare-20100924,0,7752827,full.story

California has paid scores of criminals to care for residents
The rules of the state's home healthcare program, as interpreted by a judge this year, permit such felons to work as aides. Among their crimes are rape, assault and theft.
By Evan Halper,
Los Angeles Times
September 24, 2010

Psychiatric Industry Thrives Without Stimulus


Headline shows bias. These are humans with disabilities. They are not diseases. The important fact omitted is greedy psychiatrists and drug companies did not have their funding cut, only safe havens for persons with disabilities to hang. When will the corruption of the psychiatric industry be exposed? Greedy pols take campaign money to maintain funding for the human services corporations. Persons with disabilities with up to 85 percent unemployment do not have PACs or lobbyists. How long before MA police begin shooting mental patients? Oh they already started. They're using private security vigilantes.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1207777

Mentally ill rally against service cuts
Don’t club our ‘houses’
By Katy Jordan
Boston Herald
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

NJ Senate President: Mental Patients are Human


http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/state_sen_president_cody_seeks.html

N.J. Sen. President Cody seeks to restore grave sites for mentally ill
By Lawrence Ragonese
NJ.com
September 19, 2009, 9:00PM

Rwandan Government Denies Forced Sterilization of Mental Patients


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8128121.stm

or

http://tinyurl.com/np8xly

15:14 GMT, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:14 UK
Rwanda denies sterilisation plans
BBC Online

California Gulag Closes


Americans are brainwashed concerning the psychiatric industry and the drug industry. Under Stalin and Hitler Russians and Germans used psychiatric hospitals to silence critics and to punish members of unpopular groups. Clueless Americans believe that American psychiatrists have had their genes cleansed of greed, mendacity and sadism. One question never asked is why do police enforce psychiatric diagnoses? Why is the notion of unlawful discrimination toward persons with disabilities not apply to persons accused of mental illness? Why are the rights of persons with disabilities never enforced or defended by the taxpayer funded attorneys? Closing this den of abuse is good news. The useful idiots who lament its closing are those who support and enjoy benefits from the abuses of vulnerable persons. [There are some humorous comments under this story.]


http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1893953.html

Mental health center closes
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By Robert Lewis
rlewis@sacbee.com
Sacramento Bee
Published: Wednesday, May. 27, 2009 -

Scrutinize Psychiatry Not Its Victims


This article marginalizes people with disabilities. (Alissa Quart, "Listening to Madness," NEWSWEEK, May 2, 2009 (Magazine issue May 18, 2009)) Quart says, "Will Hall believes that psychiatrists are prone to making arbitrary distinctions between 'crazy' and 'healthy,' and to using medication as tranquilizers." No psychiatrist can distinguish clearly between sanity and insanity. Drugs merely inhibit offensive speech and behavior - alleged symptoms. They do not cure causes. Only psychiatrists can see mental illnesses. There are no pathologies. Police, psychiatrists, medical physicians, politicians and journalists all reinforce the "stigma attached to mental illness."

Among drug company flacks and psychiatrists "questioning the need for medication [. . .] is controversial." Among others it is common sense and good patient behavior.

Quart rewrites the Icarus myth as psychiatry. Icarus' father Daedalus counseled his son to make wings to escape from King Minos' Labyrinth prison. Icarus was carried away with his success just as politicians often are (John Edwards, Barack Obama: Come on down!). He flew too close to the sun after ignoring Daedalus' warning. Psychiatrists call that oppositional disorder a common activity of youth. The therapeutic state makes all human activity mental illness. Psychiatric poets create illnesses by consensus.

Quart distorts the nature of the "Treatment Advocacy Center." TAC promotes forced treatment and an extremely negative view of persons accused of mental illness that violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. E. Fuller Torrey is the totalitarian architect of this evil organization.

Quart quotes Peter Kramer saying, "Psychotic depression is a disease." He promotes the "widespread use of antidepressants." Even the drug-company-friendly FDA places a black box warning on anti depressants which have been shown to cause suicidal behavior in some persons. Why is that fact omitted from this report?

Why is the police power of the state used to force medical treatment? Why are police empowered to make psychiatric diagnoses on the street? Newsweek should scrutinize psychiatry and its drug company funding rather than the victims of psychiatric abuses.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/195694

SOCIETY
Listening to Madness
Why some mentally ill patients are rejecting their medication and making the case for 'mad pride.'
By Alissa Quart
NEWSWEEK
Published May 2, 2009
From the magazine issue dated May 18, 2009