-Caveat Lector-
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Johannes Schmidt III wrote:
> http://leviathan.weblogs.com
>
> From The Times
>
> http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-54527,00.html
>
> Mentally ill may be detained in 'super-hospital'
>
> BY RICHARD FORD AND JILL SHERMAN
>
> THOUSANDS of people with severe personality disorders could
> be detained in a single, campus-style, hospital under a
> reform of mental health laws in England and Wales announced
> yesterday.
> Dangerous offenders would be housed in 50-bed units within a
> secure perimeter fence and serviced from a central
> administration area. The proposal is being considered as a
> cheaper alternative to building separate small secure units
> which would be highly expensive and provoke nimbyism.
[What's "nymbyism?"]
>
> Building a single huge hospital would also avoid the problem
> of multiple applications for planning permission for units
> which could house convicted paedophiles. The Home Office plan
> is a result of proposals for the biggest overhaul of mental
> health laws for more than 40 years. The reforms will give
> doctors powers to lock up people even if they have not
> committed a crime and to detain prisoners who remain
> dangerous even after serving their sentence.
>
> The White Paper, Reforming the Mental Health Act, published
> yesterday, will allow individuals with severe personality
> disorders to be detained indefinitely if experts believe they
> are a danger to the public. Psychiatric patients in the
> community will undergo compulsory treatment. If they refuse,
> they will be returned to hospital. At present a person can
> only be forced to take treatment if they are sectioned.
> Victims of violent crime committed by mentally ill people
> will be told when their attacker is to be released.
>
> The changes are intended to close legal loopholes and meet
> public concern at the failings of care in the community. They
> have been drawn up in the wake of a series of murders by
> mentally ill people living in the community, such as that of
> Jonathan Zito who was killed by Christopher Clunes, a
> schizophrenic, in 1992, and the case of Michael Stone,
> convicted of murdering Lin Russell and her daughter Megan in
> Kent in 1996. He suffered from a severe personality disorder
> but, despite it having been diagnosed for several years, he
> could not be looked after in a secure mental unit because the
> disorder is deemed untreatable.
>
> The overhaul, which is unlikely to come into effect for at
> least two years, removes the criteria of “treatability”.
>
> Many charities welcomed the plans outlined by Alan Milburn,
> the Health Secretary, but others said that the sweeping new
> powers would prompt a return to Victorian-style asylums, with
> innocent people locked up.
>
> More than 2,000 people in the UK are believed to have a
> dangerous personality disorder. An estimated 1,400 are in
> jails, 400 in hospitals and up to 600 are in the community.
>
> Graeme Sandell of the National Association for the Care and
> Resettlement of Offenders said the powers were an “excessive
> reaction to a genuine and legitimate public concern.” But
> Cliff Prior of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship said
> that the proposals were an early Christmas present for
> everyone who believed it was time to end the Cinderella
> status of mental health.
>
> “But it is a Christmas present that carries a demand for
> payment. There can be no buy-now, pay-later period.”
>
> Liberty, the civil rights group, expressed serious concern at
> plans to detain people with a mental disorder. Mary Cunneen
> of Liberty said: “This means that an individual with any form
> of mental disorder can be detained against their will, even
> if they cannot be effectively treated and have not done
> anything wrong, on the basis that they pose a risk to
> others.”
>
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