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Old 10-07-2013, 05:42 PM   #3249
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Originally Posted by *Anya* View Post
My comment: Note the use of pepper spray on a grossly psychotic inmate! That borders on torture to me. An IM antipsychotic would be far more humane. I have been in a team of mental health professionals to take down an assaultive patient, without harming that patient, using Management of Assaultive behavior techniques. Are these guards that manage a unit of mentally ill inmates not trained?
I doubt that they are, given that it's a prison, not a mental hospital. Add that to the long list of problems with prisons being the new half-assed substitute for asylums.
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