First up today is Frontline: The Released about how mentally ill inmates get better treatment in jail/prison than they do when they are released, which causes a cycle of criminal behavior. In the 70’s the government closed a lot of mental instructions, for preference of “home care”. The problem is that the home care never materializes, so prisons have become the new mental instructions. So many people have no help with their mental health problems and we are making them criminals instead of getting them treatment. This movie makes me miss the place I lived when I was 18, the Curben. I was surrounded by people with serious mental illness most days, and I miss that sometimes. Sometimes I think that I should go try to work with the homeless mentally ill, because it is always interesting.
Moving on in a frontline sort of day to Frontline: Post Mortem about death investigations in the US and the lack of standardization. Pretty decent movie, here it is in a nutshell. Some coroners don’t know what they are doing, there is a lot of corruption, there is no standardization, and no real qualifications. Interesting movie, but not a lot to say about it.
(in here I had a three hour Intervention break)
Three Soldiers is the story of three soldiers who committed suicide in Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom has had the highest levels of suicide in Army history. The families say they can’t believe that their loved one committed suicide, and the army says that the people who had the most severe mental health issues would be unlikely or unable to seek treatment. While this movie is about a serious topic, it is not a well made movie. The stories switch back and forth with no segues and it gets a bit confusing after a while. Also they say it is about three soldiers, but really it is about two, with two others mentioned briefly.
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