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Originally Posted by Rainbowzz
Try the Prisontalk.com website I think i might have already mentioned to you, but cannot remember for sure. They have TONS of people who have great insight and experience into these things.
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Originally Posted by Rainbowzz
Can they refuse her mental health care? Or demand it of her then refuse it? That seems like a human rights issue to not have access to medical treatment. You are in the USA right?
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No, legally they can not; in practice they can. It's sort of like asking if your parents can abuse you. The law protects children but you have to have someone believe you first and if they don't and yur parents catch wind of it - you are screwed. Today there are more protections for children but go back 50-60 years and it was almost better for a child to be silent than try to get help. It's kind of the same thing here.
Yes, I'm in the US...but that's the thing - they don't deny her medical care. Technically she's a ward of the state. Therefore, if the state says she doesn't need medical treatment, then she doesn't get medical treatment. They're not denying it, they simply say she is healthy and doesn't need it. Then, if another agency, however related (like the parole board) says she needs medical care, they send her back, they re-evaluate and then decide she doesn't need it after all - then she doesn't get it.