public square for prisoners: September 2019

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

A Course Forward to REAL treatment for our mentally ill? FLYNN vs DOYLE

THE FLYNN DOYLE SOLUTION

this is a case that won for the women's prison in Fond du Lac, WI (Taychedah, TCI). a new treatment center and a new structure for the psychological staff and their patients. We will be studying the documents below to decide if we want to us the Flynn Doyle case as template to get treatment and humanity reinstated in the men's prisons.

Of course the situation has become more complicated since the above decision, as the DOC has become more sophisticated in its techniques for avoiding accountability. For example , there is widespread changing of diagnoses which we call "cure by diagnosis" , that makes it hard to prove that inmates NEED the mental health treatment. When the DOC changes a diagnosis from SERIOUS (MH1 )to not Serious (MH2), the diagnosis becomes in many cases"malingering"- meaning all punishments, especially for self harm, are accepted as standard.

1) this is the powerpoint overview done by the DOC on the then new treatment center at TCI:
https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/doc-tci-health-center-overview-pwpoint.pdf

2) The same overview only redone on Word to save space and make downloading and copying easier
pdf form:https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/flynn-doyle-settlement-agreement.pdf
doc form:https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/tci-mental-health-treatment-center-overview.docx

3)The settlement reach by litigants- this is the document FFUP is studying now to determine if we should use this case as template for the men's prisons:
https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/flynn-doyle-settlement-agreement.pdf

4) The original complaint filed for TCI prisoners. https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/flynn-tci-complaint-from-aclu.pdf

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Requests and Conditions from our Solitary Gulags

summer and Fall 2019

Help requests from solitary-
this blog post is the beginning of a new campaign to bring an end to long term solitary confinement and to inaugurate a new era of respect and humane treatment of our forgotten brothers and sisters. FFUP and some solitary prisoners started and email blog- where they contributed their stories and I ranted around the edge, I sent it to a few friends and theu said it was too heavy and difficult . Now WE will have help crafting another email newsletter that goes to the general public and it will gently introduce folks to this incredible horror that unfolds daily in our prisons. And the rest of the stories and background will be on the web= for those who need to know. IN both place we will concentrate on action, on thisnwe can do to change the system. There is much we can do and much preparation we must do.

What is on this post
1)Here are some of the prisoners now entombed in solitary who have reached out to us. WE are writing them inviting them to join us by writing for the blog and for the newsletter
2) Toward the bottom are prisoners whose case summaries were included in the first email newsletter . All are requestin gtreatment before they leave prison and a link to their case summaries is given below.
3) Last folks on this post are those that contributed to the first newsletter- wrote their stories for us and theyuu are incited tp kee[ on writing = all will go on blog or in newsletter

Logan Kendricks 504206 WCI outdate 10 20 19 /BD 1987