Sunday, July 03, 2011
Voices From Within
Tonight CNN will be airing a documentary shot inside the old St. Elizabeth's Hospital, made by patients, about insanity acquittees. This is a very rare opportunity to see the realities of daily life for those found insane and learn more about the insanity defense. For more see the CNN story here.
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Thanks, just set it for TiVo.
Get out of jail free card? If the public believes this they need only look at Hinckley (who didn't want the insanity plea, BTW, his parents and his lawyers insisted on it). To the contrary, insanity "acquittees" are likely to spend the rest of their lives incarcerated. Mere murderers actually get to go free.
wv = bawli. What I don't get over murderers who claim they didn't know what they were doing.
That video clip is disappointing, in that it really told very little about mental illness. One of the filmmakers said, in answer to a question about what she had learned about mental illness, that it was about the capacity for healing, for change. Yet Jim Acosta tells us the patients seem to have little hope of being released, and we do not learn anything about what healing, or change, has taken place other than that the (idealistic) young filmmakers see it in the patients. This is such a dificult subject, I just wish that more had been done to illuminate it.
I liked it, but I wanted something with a lot more depth. Oh well.
Apparently Deanna Laney, who stoned two of her children to death and maimed a third child in 2003, is all better now. She has been allowed out to go shopping with her parents.
Leslie
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