Patient Sues Governor Over Being Held in Secure Psychiatric Unit At NH Prison
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Why is this Milan mother suing Gov. Sununu?
Courts & Corrections
State Rep: No Treatment Standards Reviews for Decades at Secure Psychiatric Unit
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State Rep. Renny Cushing said annual reviews of the clinical and treatment standards at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord have not been conducted as required by law for decades.
Courts & Corrections
NH Fights To Keep Hearing Closed on Removing Milan Mom as Son’s Guardian
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CONCORD – A Milan mother who is fighting to keep guardianship of her son who is being held in the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit said the state objects to allowing InDepthNH.org cover the upcoming hearing as she and her son have both requested.
Health & Mental Health
Andrew Butler Is Home In Hollis After Being Released Friday
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CONCORD – Andrew Butler was beaming his trademark smile Friday morning after being released from the New Hampshire Hospital, happy to be heading home to Hollis after almost five months in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison even though he hadn’t committed a crime.
Courts & Corrections
Andrew Butler May Be Heading Home To Hollis Soon
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CONCORD – The young Hollis man whose story spurred opposition to holding mentally ill patients who haven’t committed a crime at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison has been transferred back to the state’s psychiatric hospital.
Milan Mom Fights To Keep Guardianship Of Son At Secure Psychiatric Unit
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Nancy Heath of Milan is fighting to keep legal guardianship of her adult son, Anthony Heath, who has been locked up for about two years in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord after being found not competent to stand trial.
Change May Be Coming For Andrew Butler and All Non-Convicts at Prison Psych Unit
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CONCORD – The mood among lawmakers has changed dramatically over the last three years that InDepthNH.org has been investigating the state’s decades-long practice of locking up mentally ill people in the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime.
Featured in Category
Andrew Butler Supporters Protest Sending Non-Criminal Mentally Ill People To Prison
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CONCORD – About 35 people marched two miles from the men’s prison to U.S. District Court in Concord on Thursday to support Andrew Butler of Hollis and others who are locked up at the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit.
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Andrew Butler of Hollis: ‘I do appreciate all the support’
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His supporters are planning on Thursday to walk the two miles from the state prison to the State House to the U.S. District Court on Pleasant Street in Concord to “Free Andrew,” a walk sponsored by human rights advocates.