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Does anyone know how mental illness in jail is handled?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nandina" data-source="post: 761384" data-attributes="member: 23742"><p>Thank you Copa, Deni and Busy. I woke up this morning with the same thought, about just getting rid of him and hiring someone else. As I said, I felt like he had been representing my son well—he has been very responsive to every call or text with answers to questions and good advice, or so it seemed. We had met him once at court and we were impressed with him. But of course those things didn’t involve a visit to JAIL to visit a DRUG ADDICT in a different county. (also different state than me.)</p><p></p><p>I had planned to do something but I was thinking more like a formal complaint to the legal board after this is all over. And a more immediate formal letter firing his a**. My stress level cannot take fighting with this guy right now. And besides, it is not lost on me that if he can’t be a mental health advocate for my son who is clearly suffering, how adequately will he represent him in court? I’ll just move on and be thankful it wasn’t a small fortune to pay him.</p><p></p><p>Yes, I heard the same about this jail, that their answer to every inmate disturbance is put them in solitary. I fear that my son will “go off” again and get put back there. It is frightening.</p><p></p><p>I think this lawyer’s only hope for helping my son was that he enter drug treatment. The judge would have looked kindly on that and perhaps saved him from prison or a stiffer sentence. And this guy’s defense lawyer skills would be successful. When that didn’t work and my son became homeless, on the streets and a “fugitive,” lawyers words, (like son is running from the law because he didn’t show up for court—believe me, he was too out of it and probably didn’t know he had a court date!) it seems his attitude changed. Drug addicts are ok as long as they’re getting treatment, I guess, otherwise they don’t seem to count with this guy.</p><p></p><p>Ya live and ya learn…I will research the next lawyer and interview specifically about my son’s mental health. One problem is it’s a fairly small town and there aren’t a lot of options. Since I’m out of state, I just Googled lawyers in that area, found a firm with great ratings but they didn’t handle criminal cases so referred me to this guy,</p><p></p><p>Ladies, thanks for the advice and concern. I truly appreciate it. You all are amazing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nandina, post: 761384, member: 23742"] Thank you Copa, Deni and Busy. I woke up this morning with the same thought, about just getting rid of him and hiring someone else. As I said, I felt like he had been representing my son well—he has been very responsive to every call or text with answers to questions and good advice, or so it seemed. We had met him once at court and we were impressed with him. But of course those things didn’t involve a visit to JAIL to visit a DRUG ADDICT in a different county. (also different state than me.) I had planned to do something but I was thinking more like a formal complaint to the legal board after this is all over. And a more immediate formal letter firing his a**. My stress level cannot take fighting with this guy right now. And besides, it is not lost on me that if he can’t be a mental health advocate for my son who is clearly suffering, how adequately will he represent him in court? I’ll just move on and be thankful it wasn’t a small fortune to pay him. Yes, I heard the same about this jail, that their answer to every inmate disturbance is put them in solitary. I fear that my son will “go off” again and get put back there. It is frightening. I think this lawyer’s only hope for helping my son was that he enter drug treatment. The judge would have looked kindly on that and perhaps saved him from prison or a stiffer sentence. And this guy’s defense lawyer skills would be successful. When that didn’t work and my son became homeless, on the streets and a “fugitive,” lawyers words, (like son is running from the law because he didn’t show up for court—believe me, he was too out of it and probably didn’t know he had a court date!) it seems his attitude changed. Drug addicts are ok as long as they’re getting treatment, I guess, otherwise they don’t seem to count with this guy. Ya live and ya learn…I will research the next lawyer and interview specifically about my son’s mental health. One problem is it’s a fairly small town and there aren’t a lot of options. Since I’m out of state, I just Googled lawyers in that area, found a firm with great ratings but they didn’t handle criminal cases so referred me to this guy, Ladies, thanks for the advice and concern. I truly appreciate it. You all are amazing. [/QUOTE]
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