#Mental Incarceration

[frombehindthepen]

Did Anyone See the Signs?

Did Anyone See the Signs? #MentalHealth #Depression #Psychology

Image Credit: Pixabay “I didn’t see the signs.” “I never saw it coming.” They don’t always look like what you may think they look like. They may cry for help, but it might not be done audibly or it may mean no one is paying attention and listening. Sometimes, people may walk to the edge of the cliff, wanting to stop whatever pain is brewing and stewing inside, and decide one of two things, jump…

[dandelionsresilience]

Dandelion News - October 1-7

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1. Arctic ozone reaches record high in positive step for climate

“Above-average ozone levels continued to persist through September 2024. This is significant as, previously, spring has been associated with ozone depletion[….] The March 2024 ozone average peaked at 477 Dobson units (DU), which is 6 DU higher than the previous record in March 1979 and 60 DU higher than the average for the study period (1979 to 2023).”

2. Why Massachusetts loves Nibi the beaver and [won the fight] to keep her out of the wild

“Nibi, now 2 years old, is roughly the age when wild beavers embark on their journey to find a mate and build a home. [… But] if Nibi is released in October, she would be ill-prepared for the winter[…. The governor has] issued a permit for Nibi to remain at a wildlife rescue as an educational beaver and inspire folks to protect our natural world."”

3. In Madagascar, Taniala Regenerative Camp aims to heal deforestation scars

“Residents of the villages around Lambokely manage the nursery and market garden crops. “Local communities receive training in agroecology and agroforestry, benefit from improved soil fertility, and earn additional income from intercropping in the agroforestry plots. In addition, community members are incentivized to participate in tree-planting activities.””

4. Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana Breaks Ground on $6.4 Million Affordable Housing Project

“The project’s first phase will create three-bedroom homes designed for multiple purposes, including elderly housing, emergency shelter, and support for displaced and low-income Tribal citizens. These homes will be built to meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, ensuring accessibility for all.”

5. Scientists say painting roofs this colour could save lives: How does it keep cities cool?

“[Researchers] found that cool, light-coloured roofs installed across all of London’s roofs could have cooled the city by around 0.8C [in 2018]. [… Solar panels] could have cooled the city by around 0.3C, preventing the deaths of 96 people [… while generating] more than half the energy [used by] London during the entire year of 2018.”

6. Travis County [TX] opens center to help keep people experiencing a mental health crisis out of jail

“The walk-in urgent care facility is open 24/7 and provides immediate support for people experiencing mental health crises. From there, some patients may be referred to a residential facility[… where] patients will be able to stay for up to 90 days[….] Jailed individuals may also work with their legal teams to coordinate admission to the facility.”

7. Spain’s first transgender soccer team makes debut in regional men’s league

“A soccer team consisting entirely of transgender men has[…] become the first all-trans squad to achieve federated status in Europe. […] Spain passed a pioneering trans rights bill last year designed to make it easier to change a person’s legal gender identity. […] Players may also choose to use a name that’s different from their legal one[….]”

8. Green Status of Species: Pushing Conservation Ambitions Beyond Preventing Extinction

“[… T]he Green Status of Species [is] a new part of Red List assessments that helps tell “a species’ full conservation story.” […] In addition to quantifying species recovery, the Green Status of Species […] will help to better inform future conservation actions by shedding light on which past actions have contributed most to species recovery.”

9. Hell froze over in Texas – the state will connect to the US grid for the first time via a fed grant

“[The projects will] boost grid reliability, lower energy costs, and support the clean energy transition. […] They’ll also generate nearly 9,000 jobs, supporting local economies[…. In particular, the Texas portion is] designed to prevent outages like the ones during Winter Storm Uri that hit Texas hard in 2021.”

10. Pine martens released to be reintroduced to Devon

“Work to release 15 pine martens into woods across Dartmoor has been completed[….] The eight females and seven males have all been fitted with a radio collars to allow their movements to be tracked. […] They were kept in soft-release pens for three days to get them used to their surroundings before being allowed to run wild, staff said.”

September 22-28 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

[boof-chamber]

you really have to dehumanize someone to believe that stripping them of all rights to autonomy, agency, dignity, and privacy is therapeutic. When you’re in intense emotional distress, I bet you’re wishing you could be abducted, violently restrained, and held against your will for an indefinite period of time that depends primarily on how long it takes you to stop crying about what happened to you and accept that you have no power. Then they might let you call your loved ones.

You may be there a few days, or a few weeks. You can’t leave until you’re better. There is no treatment. Getting better means pretending that this situation doesn’t bother you. If you can convince them you’re glad they did this to you, they’ll have you see the psychiatrist for the first and only time, who will say, “oh yeah, you’re better now.” Then he will begin your discharge, you can put your clothes back on (if they didn’t get lost) and they will unlock the big doors so you can head towards the front, where someone will stop you to make sure you pay your copay before you leave - probably around $150 a day, for 5 days, 10 days, 16 days… Got that on you? They’re gonna be pissed if you don’t. Don’t be a deadbeat now. They did help you with your mental illness, after all.

[lilithsquidhug]

I Must Avoid Further Psychiatric Incarceration At All Costs

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) did not consistently provide access to mental health and substance use services for Indigenous people in British Columbia correctional centres, according to B.C.'s Office of the Auditor General.

A statement from the office of Auditor General Michael Pickup says the PHSA — which has been responsible for health care in B.C.'s 10 correctional centres since 2017 — "could not confirm whether Indigenous clients entering correctional facilities were provided necessary mental health and substance use services, assessed appropriately or if discharge care plans were in place for their release."

An audit of 92 files of Indigenous clients from 2019 to 2021 found gaps in monitoring and oversight by the PHSA attributed to limited capacity of its client health information system and a lack of client file reviews. [...]

"After looking at these files, we found that the PHSA Is not fully delivering on what it is supposed to do," Pickup said in a news conference on Thursday. "And frankly, the PHSA needs to do better to care for Indigenous people in correctional centres." [...]

Fewer than half of Indigenous client files in the sample had a complete care plan for mental health and/or substance use services. About 80 per cent of clients received some services, while around 20 per cent received no services. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[beelzebubgaylord]

Jack after gettinf rescued and finding out that he’s not getting knelt down to nor getting a statue made of him and instead gets mandated to a lobotomy and 10 years in jail before public execution

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: David Barrett

Published: Sep 27, 2024

The number of females being arrested is surging faster than the number of males, driven by violent and sex crimes, new figures have revealed.

Home Office data published yesterday showed the number of women and girls detained in England and Wales in the year to March jumped 12 per cent compared with the previous year to almost 114,000.

There were significant increases in the number of females held for violence, robbery and even sex offences.

By comparison there was a seven per cent rise in the number of males arrested, with 603,000 during the year.

The figures were released just two days after Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled plans to slash the number of women in jail, as she insisted ‘prison isn’t working’ for female offenders.

Her remarks amounted to a reversal of then-Tory home secretary Michael Howard’s famous ‘prison works’ mantra from 30 years ago.

Women offenders could be housed in ‘residential centres’ instead of behind bars, while other criminal charges against female offenders could be ‘resolved before they go to court’, the Labour Party conference in Liverpool heard.

‘It is high time we stopped sending so many women to prison,’ Ms Mahmood said.

‘For women, prison isn’t working.’

There are currently 3,453 women in jail in England and Wales – more than double the number three decades ago.

Ms Mahmood noted that two-thirds of women prisoners are inside for non-violent crimes.

The new figures showed forces in England and Wales made 720,506 arrests in the year to March, up eight per cent from the previous 12 months, and the highest number since 2017.

Some forces used ‘other’ categorisations for the gender of arrestees.

It is unclear why the number of females being arrested is on the rise.

But David Spencer, head of crime and justice at the Policy Exchange think-tank, said the overall increase was likely to be down to the previous Conservative government’s recruitment of 20,000 police officers.

Police numbers in England and Wales stood at a record 147,746 at the end of March.

‘This suggests the 20,000 additional police officers are starting to lead to more arrests,’ Mr Spencer said.

‘That reflects positively on the decision of Boris Johnson’s government to increase police numbers.’

The Home Office figures showed the largest percentage increase for females was seen in arrests for robbery, which jumped by 29 per cent from 403 to 1,783.

There was also a large rise in the number of females held for sexual offences, which rose 27 per cent from 237 to 1,124.

The overall increase in the number of females arrested was driven by a surge in ‘violence against the person’, which was up by 6,541 to 63,188, or 12 per cent.

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‘For women, prison isn’t working.’

And what makes you think it is working for men? People wronged by these women sure wouldn't agree with this.

Ms Mahmood noted that two-thirds of women prisoners are inside for non-violent crimes.

And how many men are?

‘It is high time we stopped sending so many women to prison,’

Maybe so many women should stop committing crimes? For this to be true, female incarceration would have to be disproportionate to criminal perpetration, when compared to male incarceration vs criminal perpetration. That is, are they in prison for a reason that would not have landed a man in prison? Are they in prison longer for their crime than a man would get for the same crime?

Not only do we know that's not the case, we know that it's actively and deliberately untrue.

Even with this discrepancy, the (white) female incarceration rate has risen.

[ Source ]

What we're actually learning is that female crime has been historically under-prosecuted, suggested to be due to under-resourcing, and ideologues regard the more recent correction as a problem.

Either a crime is severe enough to warrant a custodial sentence or it's not. Its severity and whether it's deserving of incarceration doesn't change because of the sex of the perpetrator.

This is fundamentally saying that crimes committed by women are inherently lesser than those committed by men. That women are less capable of committing a crime warranting incarceration than men. Imagine if it was "women are less capable of being a CEO than men."

For some reason, we don't see the champions of "equality" bleating about this.

If A must equal B, then B must also equal A.

Equality is not a buffet from which you can pick and choose. That's what Xians do with their bible and their god's commands.

[glittertimes]

I shouldn’t have to actively fight to not get addicted to things! Like why are things that are addictive so easily accessible to me!

[thirteens-earring]

book I’m reading: a lot of people experiencing mental health crises turn to libraries which are unable or unwilling to meet their needs

me: alright yeah

book: this is because we got rid of the asylums. open the asylums

me: um

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

Racist disabled people and ableist POC are ignoring the fact that a significant amount of people shot by the police are shot for being both disabled and none white.

That a huge amount of people in jail are in jail for being both neurodivergent and none white.

When a disabled person who is not white is a victim of police brutality or is arrested we should assume that it is a combination of racism and ableism at fault.

[draco-renn]

Man. All I do these days is fail to meet expectations and then get upset at myself for failing to meet those expectations. This sucks.

[grapehyasynth]

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[etakeh]

sd

This means that, over the past ten months, a staggering 81,000 Americans who’ve reached out to 988 for confidential conversations have ended up being coercively taken to psychiatric hospitals. In 988’s first full year of operation, its call centers are on pace to incarcerate nearly 100,000 people.

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members of the Lifeline’s own Lived Experience Committee had begun vehemently protesting the Lifeline’s policy of initiating unwanted interventions against people deemed to be at imminent risk, and had noted the lack of any scientific evidence that the practice saves lives or helps more than harms people. According to 988 Lifeline internal minutes from a March 2023 meeting obtained by Mad in America, VEH has disbanded the Lived Experience Committee and shut it down.

hmm

ok I'm not a mental health professional in any way, just an end user, but

this is fucked up.

If people can't trust the org they're going to for help, they simply won't go to anyone for help. And I don't blame them - trust is HUGE.

and these types of orgs are fucked up.

[disengaged]

[kingofkingsschizo]

The system is failing the mentally ill population across the nation. As a mentally ill person, I was incarcerated and abused, neglected, and also excessive force was used against me and I suffer from mental illness.There could come a time in your very own life where you are in crisis and are having episodes trying the best you can to survive with your mental illness out in society, out in public. You may act out and lash out at law-enforcement being that you may be delusional. This occurs all the time in public with law-enforcement. It happens in public. No one understands what a mentally ill person goes through with his life of mental illness. There are occasions and instances where we may become psychotic with episodes because we are unmedicated or other crisis and stresses that causes us not to be not in control of our mental health. The system has failed us because there is nothing in place to be proactive and provide the correct support and response that we need. There is not enough social workers trained professionals in law-enforcement to deal with the crisis that we have now. Incarceration while being mentally ill is very dangerous to the mentally ill person. I know this for a fact. I think once a person has been established as someone who suffers from mental illness in their community. There should be a red flag. Whenever a call comes in that this person is in crisis again. The place where it all goes wrong is communication and keeping record of who is mentally ill in the community. When consecutive calls are made on a mentally ill person it seems like that they have become a nuisance to the public. so the law enforcement becomes your enemy and wants to see you locked up for good because you have committed so many disturbances out in the public. They wanted to give me 2 to 10 years for spitting on the officer which  I would have never done in my right mind. But I went through incarceration and a stressful probation. I had to pay fines and complete community service when I am mentally ill. Plus from the abuse I suffered in the county it caused permanent damage to my spine and I was expected to complete community service. By the grace of God, I made it out without having to be re-incarcerated for revoking my probation. But I made it. There are a lot of things I would like to talk about while being incarcerated. I have ideas in my head to revamp the system the way it is right now. The status quo has to go. abuse, neglect should and remain held accountable to those who provide actually nothing at all to help the mentally ill while incarcerated. They do very little to correct the problem with the person that is on the ground in crisis. Their solution, the system, is to incarcerate and convict. And with that comes abuse suffering and neglect to a degree that blows my mind. I can’t believe that I have to discuss this issue in this day and age but this exist. You may be schizophrenic and new to your diagnosis and there are a lot of things you need to examine that’s going on in the media with mentally ill people stay abreast to everything that’s going on because it could happen to you, because it happened to me,. When all I needed was help. God help this mess.

[luulapants]

Do you have any stats on developmental disabilities of people incarnated on sexual violence charges? I wonder if it's mostly USA thing or it's similar elsewhere where laws are different in regard of legal responsibilities of severely disabled folks.

I don't have stats that drill down specifically into sexual offenders, nor does the available data from the Bureau of Justice distinguish between sexual violence charges and what could be more passive offenses like public masturbation. In fact, there's a huge issue overall in defining "violent crime" in data.

That said, here's broader data on disability in prisons in America. I'm including mental health data, because these are often conflated in determining the cause of someone's debilitation, e.g. someone may be diagnosed with schizophrenia because they're unable to form coherent sentences, which could also be attributed to severe learning disability. All of this is a consequence of the failure to replace the mental asylum system with any adequately funded alternative. This information is from the Prison Policy Initiative, and their data is public for anyone who wants to learn more.

24% of people in state prisons have a cognitive disability, compared to 5% nationwide.

26% have ADHD, compared to 4.4% of adults nationwide.

25% have been in special education classes.

Over half of people in state prison have some indication of mental illness. That number is higher for women and Native Americans. 43% have a diagnosis.

Only a quarter are receiving treatment for their mental illness, which tells us that, A) the prisons don't want to or feel obligated to treat mental illness, however B) a quarter of people in prison have severe enough symptoms that the prison is forced to treat them.

Lastly, I would add that civil commitment as a sexual predator, the process that allows someone deemed a sex offender to be committed and incarcerated for the rest of their lives, is not a trial-by-jury situation. A single state-employed psychiatrist is able to evaluate an individual and determine whether that person should be held in custody indefinitely. These evaluations, you may not be shocked to hear, skew hard against those who display severe cognitive or mental disorders.