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Restraints and Seclusion are Unacceptable for Prisoners and for the ‘Mentally Ill’ |
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ABU GHRAIB PAINTING
"In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions," Gonzales wrote in a legal memo to President Bush on Jan. 25, 2002. Declaring the war-on-terror prisoners exempt from the Geneva Convention, he argued, "substantially reduces the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act." - Robert Scheer, The Nation
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In the U.S, mental health clients are sometimes subjected to treatments that can be viewed as torture. These include forced hospitalization, non-consensual electroshock, and overmedication. These so-called "treatments" are said to "work" by the mental health system. But many mental health clients feel terrorized by such "treatments," and often feel alone and very frightened, not knowing how to end their own torture.
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STOP the TORTURE
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Mental Health Clients Association of San José City College
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