Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2014 14:58:06 GMT
I was casually listening to You and Yours today, and there was the usual stuff about energy companies. Then they had an astonishing article about the corruption at privately run 'treatment centres' for mentally ill people. There are people who get sent to these places against their will and without the permission of relatives. They are supposed to provide assessment and treatment lasting only a few months, but some inmates are kept there for years in order to milk the public purse.
The worst case was one of a woman who had been kept in solitary confinement for nine years in one of these centres, at a cost to the public purse of £12,500 per week! She had no contact with any other human being except through a hatch. She slept on a bean bag and was fed through the hatch. It sounds like one of those awful stories from a country with no human rights laws.
The worst case was one of a woman who had been kept in solitary confinement for nine years in one of these centres, at a cost to the public purse of £12,500 per week! She had no contact with any other human being except through a hatch. She slept on a bean bag and was fed through the hatch. It sounds like one of those awful stories from a country with no human rights laws.
