In Idaho, patients with mental illness are imprisoned without criminal conviction, a practice that has been ignored despite pleas for change. Nurse Catherine Hudson has been sentenced to seven years and two months in jail for ill-treatment of stroke patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. Idaho will soon be the last state to legally sanction imprisoning mentally ill patients who are not criminals. The practice involves locking patients in solitary confinement in a maximum security facility, sometimes for months at a time. In Wolverhampton, four healthcare workers have been jailed for abusing an 89-year-old woman with vascular dementia.
Revealed: 'Pure evil' nurse who sedated patients for fun had A&E medic boyfriend who was caught trying to cover up her thefts by chewing up medicine packs and flushing tablets down the toilet when police bugged their home https://t.co/cQeMRLobr5 https://t.co/FqqUk8VoVD
Revealed: 'Pure evil' nurse who sedated patients for fun had A&E medic boyfriend who was caught trying to cover up her thefts by chewing up medicine packs and flushing tablets down the toilet when police bugged their home https://t.co/hp6TxSzseu https://t.co/2EHGwfXo6R
Four 'health care assistants' have been jailed after they were caught on camera abusing and ill-treating an elderly woman in their care. The 89-year-old suffered from vascular dementia and was non-verbal. She had lived at a Wolverhampton care home for almost a year when her… https://t.co/W8rtP4Wl73
Four Nigerian healthcare workers have been found guilty of abusing an 89 year-old woman with vascular dementia in Wolverhampton. Ame Tunkara, 33 & Morounranti Adefila, 43 jailed for 4 months. Last Sept Danny Ohen, 39 & Bridget Aideyan, 49, were jailed for 6 mths & 4 mths.… https://t.co/2QHdHbZ7aV
Under a program defined by Idaho law, patients are locked up in solitary confinement in a maximum security facility, sometimes for months at a time. One civil rights advocate called the practice “shocking beyond belief.” https://t.co/ahbVV18waU
Nurses conspire to sedate patients for 'easy shifts,' leading to seven-year prison term https://t.co/yS2WAGwikh https://t.co/NHwP8UIjus
Idaho will soon be the last state to legally sanction the practice of imprisoning patients who are mentally ill but are not criminals. “I think it’s really tragic that it has been this many years, and we’re still at this point,” one advocate said. https://t.co/RZ0VzZv6Ow
Nurse and healthcare worker who illegally drugged patients at a Blackpool stroke ward for their 'own amusement' are jailed for a total of ten years and two months https://t.co/kzYjq6i5jz https://t.co/CnnrzbulQh
BREAKING: Nurse Catherine Hudson, has been sentenced at Preston Crown Court to seven years and two months in jail over the ill-treatment of stroke patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. https://t.co/1iDeG1K3qw
In Idaho, some people with mental illness are imprisoned without a criminal conviction. For decades, pleas to change the practice have been ignored. https://t.co/pVl5OnBr1Y