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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.
May 24, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/05/24/andrew-butler-supporters-protest-sending-non-criminal-mentally-ill-people-to-prison/CONCORD — Supporters are holding a walk from the state prison in Concord to the federal courthouse for Andrew Butler of Hollis and other prisoners at the Secure Psychiatric Unit of the men’s prison on Thursday starting at 9 a.m., according to an American Friends Service Committee news release.
May 23, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/05/23/pilgrimage-for-andrew-butler-from-prison-to-federal-court-set-for-thursday-in-concord/Updated: CONCORD — Andrew Butler’s father says the state is trying to hide its federal court response to his son’s demand for transfer out of the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit because he hasn’t committed a crime by filing some of the documents under seal.
May 17, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/05/17/state-wants-its-court-memo-in-andrew-butlers-case-filed-under-seal/Kevin “Kelly” Gearhart will have her day in court next week to argue why she shouldn’t be incarcerated at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity to receiving stolen property, attempted theft and escape just over a year ago.
February 27, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/02/27/court-date-ordered-for-transgender-patient-fighting-the-nh-department-of-corrections/CONCORD – A transgender patient at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison says the Department of Corrections is trying to “evict” her for standing up for her constitutional right to mental health treatment at the facility.
February 15, 2018 | https://indepthnh.org/2018/02/15/transgender-patient-says-nh-prison-trying-to-evict-her/Justin Plamondon is a transgender woman locked up in the Secure Psychiatric Unit of the State Prison for Men in Concord and she is not alone in the prison system. There are 10 other transgender women incarcerated with men in Concord and one in the Berlin prison.
February 7, 2017 | https://indepthnh.org/2017/02/07/transgender-woman-inmate-at-mens-state-prison-says-her-rape-complaint-mishandled/A 33-year old man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for setting the fire that killed a Claremont couple 12 years ago will be moved from the state prison Secure Psychiatric Unit to the less restrictive New Hampshire Hospital in Concord.
November 17, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/11/17/man-who-started-fatal-claremont-fire-in-2004-moved-to-less-restrictive-hospital/State Rep. Renny Cushing is urging the public to attend a legislative work session on prohibiting the transfer of people never charged with a crime from the New Hampshire Hospital to the State Prison Secure Psychiatric Unit. The meeting is Sept. 14 in the Legislative Office Building, Room 205 at 10:30 a.m. in front of the Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee.
August 24, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/08/24/op-ed-stop-nh-from-imprisoning-mentally-ill-people-who-havent-committed-a-crime/Eric Largy may be weeks or months away from being discharged from the New Hampshire Hospital after spending five years in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at state prison. He was found incompetent to stand trial in the savage beating of his father, former Nashua Police Chief Clifton Largy.
March 11, 2016 | https://indepthnh.org/2016/03/11/ag-renew-commital-for-nashua-man-accused-of-beating-ex-police-chief-dad/