Author : Jimmy Laing
Release : 1989
Genre : Mental health policy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 925/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fifty Years in the System by : Jimmy Laing
Download or read book Fifty Years in the System written by Jimmy Laing. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the age of nine, Jimmy Laing lived under lock and key, first at the Baldovan mental institution and then at Carstairs State Hospital, the Scottish equivalent of Broadmoor. He was never tried or sentenced, for he had committed no crime. He was simply the victim of the system of dealing with problem children in the 1930s. Yet once in that system, he was certified insane and remained its captive for nearly 50 years, experiencing brutality and sexual harassment by staff and inmates, and witnessing theft, corruption and even murder. His long struggle to prove his sanity ended with conditional release in 1987.