JULY 10, 2016
GUEST: GEORGE MALLINCKRODT
TOPIC: PRISONER ABUSE
George
Cindy chats with author and activist George Mallinckrodt who
wrote the book Getting Away with Murder
about the brutal murder of Darren Rainey by prison guards
while he was being detained in prison in Florida.
George was a psychotherapist and whistle-blower in the mental health ward where this abuse (and many others) occurred.
BOOK INFO:
THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS HAS BANNED THIS BOOK! The FDC doesn't
want the truth to come out: It is the most corrupt, brutal agency in all
of Florida.
America is experiencing a mental health crisis of unprecedented
magnitude. Fifty years ago, shocking conditions and abuses in
psychiatric facilities resulted in nationwide closures with no viable
plan to provide care for former and future patients. For the severely
mentally ill, ever diminishing funding for mental health has resulted in
a de facto return to the Middle Ages. In a justice system that
criminalizes mental illness, people who desperately need mental health
services are instead routinely rounded up and thrown into prisons for no
more than a manifestation of their psychiatric conditions.
Having
worked as a psychotherapist for nearly three years in a Florida state
prison psychiatric unit, George Mallinckrodt experienced firsthand the
ultimate consequences of failed national and state mental health
policies. With high hopes, 20 years of counseling experience, and a
determination to make a difference, he dove headlong into the miasma of
prison counseling.
Join
Mallinckrodt on the front lines in an eye-opening odyssey peppered with
patients suffering a range of mental illness from paranoid
schizophrenia to garden variety depression. George provided counseling
to men who committed every crime imaginable—even grave robbery.
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