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Do the patients ever use the phones from these facilities to call the local police departments about being held against their will without cause? At this scale

• jprete 2y ago
  I'm not a psychiatrist, but it might be hard to tell them from the psychotics who can model the standard view of the world well enough, for long enough, to lie to the police about their condition. More practically, I doubt they get unsupervised phone calls.
  • rKarpinski 2y ago
    The only thing that should matter is if they are medically claiming the patient "poses an imminent threat to themselves or others", either they did the paperwork or they didn't. And these aren't one of occurrences, these are systematic abuses in the same communities that would come up over and over again - which is presumably why police raided their facility in Georgia. > More practically, I doubt they get unsupervised phone calls. Most facilities have communal phones that are available throughout the day for short periods of time.
• kelsey98765431 2y ago
  Phone access is typically restricted to a supervised call using the phone on the staff administrator's desk who can simply cut you off and glare at you with silent promises of retaliation if you don't say what they want you to say and what they agreed to let you say before they hand you the phone, all with their finger resting on the disconnect button the whole time. Unless you are not making them money, then they get you out of there asap and make calls on your behalf all day to other places to shuffle you around to.