8/11/2023 0 Comments Stl post dispatch schizophrenia![]() ![]() That kind of cynicism and indifference sums up many prison systems. A lieutenant said, “He’ll just do the same thing there. We asked numerous times to have a psyche interview to get him out of here and to the psych unit. I once had a neighbor who smeared feces all over his hair – and worse. If he’s got enough sense to get up for chow, he ain’t crazy.” Being hungry is a clear sign of sanity… Lie to your face and tell you Texas doesn’t house mentally ill offenders inĮven inmates dismiss clear signs of mental illness, saying, “He ain’t crazy. OfĬourse, if you asked an official from the administrative side of things, they’d There exists a callous indifference to suffering here. Texas prisons are a wasteland for the mentally As I write this, there is a schizophrenic a coupleĬells away having an episode, shouting at apparitions, banging on the metal Meanwhile, the truly mentally ill, the schizophrenics whoĪre uncommunicative or simply talk to themselves, the manic depressives and The same again even if they quit the pills. After a few years of that, they are goners – never Issues that they buy psych meds from prisoners who game the psych system andĬonsume them in toxic quantities to get ‘high’. There are those with such profound addiction A few years in the hole and they are ghosts – People who, when I met them, seemed relatively normal. ![]() This correctional model severely damages the weakĪnd vulnerable while exasperating mental illness. Rather – this correctional model creates monsters. The school of thought being – by inflicting maximum suffering, maximum poverty, maximum humiliation, deprivation and pain, they can make the prison experience so shockingly traumatic and painful that the incarcerated individual will never want to return to this place and so alter their life to become an upright pillar of the community. The ‘correctional model’ here is the punishment model. I’ve spent the last fifteen years in solitary confinement here in Texas. ![]()
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