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Trapped: Mentally Ill Persons in Our Nation’s Prisons
In the 1960s, there was a dramatic push to reduce the number of mental health patients in large public psychiatric hospitals, shifting their care to local communities. However, those communities were ill-prepared to provide treatment for them, and they ended up being left or abandoned on the streets to fend for themselves.
Presently, increasingly large numbers of mentally ill persons have ended up trapped as inmates in our country’s prisons and jails, rather than receiving treatment in mental health facilities.
This article includes a number of dramatic photographs of mentally ill persons who are presently trapped in prison, as well as an absolutely chilling documentary that provides a look at the unbearable experiences that the mentally ill endure inside the prison walls.
You will remember this. In the 1960s, there was a dramatic push to reduce the number of mental health patients in large public psychiatric hospitals, shifting... more -
Man rescued after 179 hours in earthquake rubble
Amazingly, a man trapped benith the rubble of a building for for nearly 179 hours was rescued during the aftermath of May 12th earthquake in China. The 31-year-old man was pulled out of the debris of a destroyed power plant. Amazingly, a man trapped benith the rubble of a building for for nearly 179 hours was rescued during the aftermath of May 12th earthqu... more
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Entombed in an Elevator
Getting trapped in an elevator is an awful way to spend time but what would you do if you were trapped in an elevator for over 41 hours? Getting trapped in an elevator is an awful way to spend time but what would you do if you were trapped in an elevator for over 41 hour... more
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41 hours trapped in elevator
Accompanying video to Nick Paumgarten's piece "Up and Then Down" from the April 21st issue of The New Yorker. Footage of Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building for 41 hours.
The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week, working late on a special supplement, had just watched the Braves beat the Mets on a television in the office pantry. Now he wanted a cigarette. He told a colleague he’d be right back and, leaving behind his jacket, headed downstairs. Accompanying video to Nick Paumgarten's piece "Up and Then Down" from the April 21st issue of The New Yorker. Footage o... more -
Abused Chicagoans Revolt Against Daley’s Decayed Subways
After putting up with years of ongoing abuse from the city, Chicago's transit riders finally revolted against Mayor Daley and his decayed subway system. Packed trains were stranded under Chicago's Loop during rush hour for more than an hour on Tuesday. People were getting sick and throwing up from the lack of circulating fresh air. Finally, riders revolted en mass, ignoring transit workers' confused directions and pleas, abandoning the stalled trains and making a long and dangerous trudge through dark and dirty underground tunnels to the light of freedom. Some of them still remain hospitalized.
Photographs and videos are included. After putting up with years of ongoing abuse from the city, Chicago's transit riders finally revolted against Mayor Daley and his... more -
Exploited and Trapped in Dubai
A group of men have been sleeping rough in a Karama park for the past six months after their passports were stolen by a recruitment agent when they arrived in Dubai. At least 30 Indians now regard the park as their home, as they have no money to rent accommodation and cannot get jobs as they are regarded as illegal workers.
“This little park has become our home for the past six months. We sleep on the grass and look towards the sky hoping that there won’t be rain or dust storms... Sometimes we remain awake all night as it is too cold to sleep,” said Bukke Shiva Rao, a 32-year-old Indian worker from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
He said that he sleeps in the park at night and goes out during the daytime looking for work. “No one is ready to provide us with a job as we are illegals and do not hold any identification documents to prove our credentials. Our only aim is to return to our country but we need help,” he added. “We have no idea for how many more days we will be suffering like this. One of our colleagues went out recently and broke his arm. He is still desperately looking for treatment. There are also many others who are suffering with various other ailments,” said another worker, Y Rajesh.
A Dubai-based social worker has been providing free food to the group on a daily basis. The men said that they came to the country at the time when the amnesty was announced last year but mounting debts back home forced them to try to find jobs, rather than take advantage of the grace period.
“We borrowed huge sums of money to come here and the interest rate has been climbing every month. We thought we could earn good money staying here. However we failed to find jobs due to strict labour laws introduced after the end of the amnesty period,” said Rajesh who paid dhs10,000 to an agent to come to Dubai.
Indian Consulate officials said that they would contact the workers and try to help them. “We will get in touch with the workers to find out why they are stranded in the country and try to provide them air tickets so that they can fly home,” BS Mubarak, Consul for Labour Affairs in the Indian Consulate, told 7DAYS. A group of men have been sleeping rough in a Karama park for the past six months after their passports were stolen by a recruitment ag... more -
Trapped in an Elevator for 41 hours - video
The New Yorker has an article this week about elevators, and features the tale of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours.
On the website, they have this video of the CCTV footage from his imprisonment. It's terrifyingly claustrophobic. The New Yorker has an article this week about elevators, and features the tale of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for 4... more -
Boy locked in safe, freed, then goes right back in
At Sam's Club, and his cousins did it to him
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