The following excerpted article comes to us from The Inclusion Daily Express. We at Planet of the Blind shiver at the apparition of Teddy Roosevelt’s ghost. Remember him? He believed that the dark races worldwide were inferior to white Americans and he sanctioned the slaughter of tens of thousands of Mexicans and Filipino civilians during our nation’s imperial adventures. We picture TR’s ghost swaggering up and down just behind the so-called “doctor” mentioned below.
Newspaper Runs Series On Breakdowns At Immigration Facilities
(Texas Tribune)
December 3, 2009
AUSTIN, TEXAS– [Excerpt] The detainee at the South Texas Immigration Detention Facility was put on suicide watch after she cut herself with a razor and tried to strangle herself with a shoelace. A physician’s assistant recommended hospitalizing her.
Instead, the chief physician put the physically disabled woman in an isolated cell and took away her crutches, according to inspection reports that don’t name the woman. She was strip-searched and denied feminine products. For days, the woman slid around the floor of the cell on scraped knees, covering herself and the cell in menstrual blood.
When inspectors with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) came out to investigate the 2007 incident, they found not a single psychiatrist on staff and a facility poorly equipped to provide mental health treatment to its nearly 1,500 detainees.
The South Texas facility, one of several federally monitored Texas lock-ups for immigrants awaiting deportation hearings, is hardly the only one with mental health staffing problems. A Texas Tribune review of five of these facilities found just three had a staff psychiatrist, despite housing a combined 5,500 detainees.
Entire article:
Detaining Care, Part One: Mental Hell
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2009/red/1203f.htm
Related:
Part Two: Health Scare
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2009/red/1203g.htm
Part Three: Andre’s Story
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2009/red/1203h.htm
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