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After spending 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Darrell Cannon became a free man, only to find his world completely changed. Despite being tortured and wrongfully imprisoned, Cannon was most upset about having lost many of his loved ones. “I lost everything,” he said, choking back on his tears. He [...]
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The presentation of Darrell Cannon was astonishing. Sitting there and listening to him, it was almost unimaginable to most of us how a person can go through so much and still remain sane. But not only he persevered though days of unthinkable torture (cattle-rods, fake shotgun shots, humiliation) and nine years of solitude in Tamms, [...]
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I just read the article about the death of 21-year-old Timothy Souders while he was incarcerated in a segregation cell at Southern Michigan Correctional. The article horrified me because of the multiple injustices involved in the case. First of all, TS shouldn’t have been in solitary confinement when his conditions of bipolar disorder, hyperactivity and [...]
Filed under: Mental Health, News, Student Observations | Tagged: inhumane treatment, injustice, malpractice, Mental Health, segregation, solitary confinement, Timothy Souders, top of the bed restraints, torture | 1 Comment »
I don’t know if any of you had a chance to read the article from last class regarding the case and death of Timothy Soulders,but I though it was completely appalling. It literally made me physically sick to read about the conditions he was subjected to,hours before the died. I’m not going to go into [...]
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