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One woman told lawmakers that her son’s toenails grew so long while he was at the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit that they curled under his feet and dug into his skin.
September 15, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/09/15/patients-families-allowed-to-speak-only-after-vote-involving-secure-psychiatric-unit/Shelly Raza doesn’t know how long she will have to stay away from mentally ill son.
May 2, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/05/02/mom-banned-from-visiting-son-at-secure-psychiatric-unit-over-birthday-balloon-pics/The state has decided against arresting a woman for bringing her cell phone and balloons to take her son’s birthday photo last month in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the State Prison for Men in Concord.
March 3, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/03/03/no-arrest-for-mom-who-took-phone-to-visit-son-at-secure-psychiatric-unit/There was little disagreement at a legislative hearing Thursday that the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the State Prison for Men in Concord is a “dismal” place, but there was disagreement over whether it is a hospital.
February 19, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/02/19/6931/CONCORD – The mother of a young man who is locked up at the State Prison for Men’s Secure Psychiatric Unit even though he hasn’t committed a crime says she has been banned from visiting him and threatened with arrest because she brought a cellphone to take his photo during her last visit.
February 18, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/02/18/mom-threatened-with-arrest-for-bringing-cellphone-to-visit-son-in-secure-psychiatric-unit/“These patients can be moved to a renovated wing of the New Hampshire Hospital…” said Andrew Milne.
February 13, 2019 | https://indepthnh.org/2019/02/13/disability-rights-center-opposes-building-new-secure-psychiatric-forensic-unit/The usual players from the state were present on the call. New Hampshire Hospital CEO Ellen Lapointe was clearly the designated speaker. Nothing really new was shared. The same citizen concerns remained.
July 5, 2022 | https://indepthnh.org/2022/07/05/op-ed-a-missed-opportunityagain/The lawsuit alleges that Phillip Borcuk, 34, of Cornish, died after corrections staff in the Residential Treatment Unit tased him multiple times, hit and pushed him to the floor of his cell and restrained him with his hands tied behind his back.
December 15, 2020 | https://indepthnh.org/2020/12/15/state-sued-in-death-of-cornish-man-held-in-prison-psychiatric-unit/Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks blamed COVID-19’s community transmission for “some staff and residents testing positive.”
November 25, 2020 | https://indepthnh.org/2020/11/25/hanks-confirms-6-active-covid-19-cases-at-state-prison-most-at-psych-units/