Against All Odds
| When a mentally ill person commits a crime they are
treated almost like a well person. My son Seth was arrested for waving a
gun and threatening an AA group. He was locked up at Santa Clara county
jail for almost four months before he was transferred to a state
hospital. Seth broke the law, but he is in no way a criminal. He must
answer to the laws the way anyone of us do, but surely should be
entitled to his right to being healed. The laws as they are do not in
any way deal with the reality of the mentally ill. The criminal laws of
this land do not know the mentally ill even exist.
Bob Swanson, Parent |
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