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Justice Action's particular concerns are with the use of prisons to solve mental health problems. There is an urgent need to create community based care, with the support of families and people with experience, instead of locking away the problems, medicating individuals at the cost of $205,000 a person a…
The closed system of the NSW Health Department's mental hospitals is getting exposure through the window of patient Saeed Dezfouli. It shows systemic abuse of dependent people cloaked as care.
Mental Health and Video Surveillance Observation by video camera raises countless areas of concern pertaining to privacy issues. The crime reduction rates suggested by proponents of video systems, particularly in terms of closed circuit television (CCTV) systems being placed in public areas to combat criminal behaviour, are not convincing. One…
Mental Health Act/Forensic provisions government review current NSW 3/07 Generally speaking, forensic prisoners exist in a sort of limbo between 'involuntary patient' and 'convicted prisoner' that in practice often results in them getting the worst of both worlds.
Beyond Bars There are many people in prison in NSW who have some form of mental illness. This fact sheet examines why people with a mental illness are sent to prison and the problems that arise from the incarceration of those who are have mental health issues. What is a…
THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO EDUCATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS Latest News: 22nd January 2012: The major news outlets, namely the Herald, the Australian and the Telegraph, have reported on Justice Action's recent victory in winning the right for Saeed Dezfouli to study law. 20th January 2012: Victory! Saeed Sayaf Dezfouli…
“Free Saeed Dezfouli” Campaign “I am a patient with patients’ rights, an inmate with inmates’ rights and a human being with human rights. These rights have been fundamentally and severely violated by unprofessional and sadistic state government employees in the positions of psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and prison officers. They…
CONSUMER CONTROLLED FUNDING Draft 13/02/2012: Assessing the Formation of the NDIS The Productivity Commission in its report in August 2011 declared that the provision of services to people with disability is ‘unfair and inefficient’.1 This is consistent with the OUR PICK Report accusation of corruption,…
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