Restraint

"The Human Condition"

M-POWER, a MindFreedom International sponsor group, stands up for the rights of the mentally ill in emergency rooms.

"State cites preventable deaths in report on Sharp Grossmont"

An article in the San Diego Union Tribune addressing preventable deaths in a La Mesa hospital, including the suffocation while in restraints of a 25-year-old man, Jeffrey Christopher, labeled schizophrenic.

Jonathan's Law: Too Little, Too Late, for Disabled Teen

On a February afternoon in 2007, Jonathan Carey, a slender, non-verbal 13-year-old boy with autism, was crushed to death inside an institutional van by one of his caretakers, while another made only the most feeble gestures toward intervening....