How Many More?
How Many More?
They are human beings.
Federal and state prisoners are treated better!
Why?
Is is because that federal and state prisons have to answer to someone?
The group homes don’t. They get the ward.
They get the money.
Those who have helped them achieve their goal are paid.
So, no one says anything.
Top Secret.
Open your mouth and the bank goes broke.
Hide the ‘ward’.
Isolate. No family contact!
No pictures!
Pictures paint a thousand words!
Look – the picture of a prison:
Now – look at the ‘doors’ of the ‘home’ the young man pictured above was ‘placed’:
Not much difference, huh?
But the ‘guardian’ or ‘conservator’ will deny – emphatically – their wards are prisoners.
Really?
Yes – really.
Because a state or federal prisoner is treated better – in every sense of the word.
Check out this article:
See? A state prisoner submits a complaint and BAM! News at eleven!
Casey is malnourished and goes blind because of lack of care.
No news story there!
What about the young man in the picture with a black eye?
How many more?
Elderly abuse is FINALLY making the news.
The forgotten demographic are the YOUNG disabled adults.
Below are excerpts from an article on ‘the shameful legacy of Ronald Reagan:
Group homes are ‘board-and-care’ homes
Group homes, or ‘board-and-care’ homes – are a shameful legacy of Ronald Reagan.
In November 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan overwhelmingly defeated Jimmy Carter.
‘One month prior to the election, President Carter had signed the Mental Health Systems Act, which had proposed to continue the federal community mental health centers program, although with some additional state involvement.
Consistent with the report of the Carter Commission, the act also included a provision for federal grants “for projects for the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of positive mental health,” an indication of how little learning had taken place among the Carter Commission members and professionals at NIMH.
With President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental Health Systems Act was discarded before the ink had dried and the CMHC funds were simply block granted to the states.
The CMHC program had not only died but been buried as well. An autopsy could have listed the cause of death as naiveté complicated by grandiosity.’
President Reagan never understood mental illness
President Reagan never understood mental illness. Like Richard Nixon, he was a product of the Southern California culture that associated psychiatry with Communism.
Reagan – shot by John Hinckley, a young man with untreated schizophrenia – two months after taking office – tried to arrange to meet with Hinckley, so that Reagan could forgive him.
The president was told that this was not a good idea.
Reagan was exposed to untreated mental illness through the two sons of Roy Miller, his personal tax advisor.
Both sons developed schizophrenia; one committed suicide in 1981, and the other killed his mother in 1983. Despite such personal exposure, Reagan never exhibited any interest in the need for research or better treatment for serious mental illness.
Beginning in the late 1950s, California became the national leader in aggressively moving patients from state hospitals to nursing homes and board-and-care homes, known in other states by names such as group homes, boarding homes, adult care homes, family care homes, assisted living facilities, community residential facilities, adult foster homes, transitional living facilities, and residential care facilities.
Big business in California
By 1975 board-and-care homes had become big business in California. In Los Angeles alone, there were “approximately 11,000 ex-state-hospital patients living in board-and-care facilities.” Many of these homes were owned by for-profit chains, such as Beverly Enterprises, which owned 38 homes.
Many homes were regarded by their owners “solely as a business, squeezing excessive profits out of it at the expense of residents.”
Five members of Beverly Enterprises’ board of directors had ties to Governor Reagan; the chairman was vice chairman of a Reagan fundraising dinner.
“Four others were either politically active in one or both of the Reagan [gubernatorial] campaigns and/or contributed large or undisclosed sums of money to the campaign.”
Financial ties between the governor, who emptied state hospitals.
Business persons profited from the process would also soon become apparent in other states.
Several homicides. Suicides.
How many more?
