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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.
June 6, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/06/06/milan-mom-fights-to-keep-guardianship-of-son-at-secure-psychiatric-unit/Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter is looking into what happened to a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice filed by state Rep. Renny Cushing and others two years ago regarding incarcerating mentally ill people who haven’t committed a crime with convicted criminals at the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit.
May 29, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/05/29/shea-porter-investigates-unanswered-complaint-about-nh-prisons-secure-psychiatric-unit-to-doj/CONCORD — The fight by advocates and state Rep. Renny Cushing to stop incarcerating mentally ill people who haven’t committed a crime with convicted criminal patients at the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit in Concord made some headway on Monday.
May 14, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/05/14/committee-offers-glimmer-of-hope-for-change-at-the-mens-prisons-secure-psychiatric-unit/The town of Hollis has united behind Andrew Butler, a popular, outgoing former high school star athlete who is locked up in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the state prison for men in Concord even though he hasn’t committed a crime.
May 1, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/05/01/hollis-unites-to-free-andrew-butler-from-nh-prisons-secure-psychiatric-unit/CONCORD – Criticism mounted against the Secure Psychiatric Unit at NH State Prison for Men Tuesday as members of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee heard complaints about the lack of treatment there.
March 28, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/03/28/criticism-mounts-against-the-secure-psychiatric-unit-at-state-prison/CONCORD – The Disability Rights Center is monitoring the rights and safety of individuals with mental illness who are locked up at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men, according to DRC staff attorney Andrew Milne.
March 23, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/03/23/nh-disabilities-rights-center-is-monitoring-secure-psychiatric-unit-complaints/CONCORD – Kevin “Kelly” Gearhart has asked Judge Marguerite Wageling for a quick ruling on Gearhart’s claims that the Secure Psychiatric Unit doesn’t provide appropriate mental health care hoping a ruling will also help other patients and inmates.
March 19, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/03/19/transgender-patient-asks-to-vacate-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity-plea-claiming-no-help-at-spu/CONCORD — Two mothers told lawmakers their adult daughters are harassed, humiliated, and sometimes “locked down” at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the New Hampshire Prison for Men, and a former patient recounted nearly dying as his pleas for emergency medical care were ignored.
January 26, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/26/families-advocates-speak-out-against-the-secure-psychiatric-unit-at-nh-mens-prison/Kevin Gearhart, who goes by the name Kelly now that she is transitioning from male to female, is being held with men at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord.
January 18, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/01/18/transgender-patient-secure-psychiatric-unit-is-about-prison-not-treatment/