photographyprison: Michael Shaw at @BagNewsNotes: “This is not only one of the saddest, damning and most ironic photos I’ve ever seen, but it’s a process I, as a clinical psychologist, would refuse to participate in.” Photo by Lucy Nicholson (larger photo set at MSNBC) . I shared some feelings about these “therapy cages” in 2010.  Jeffrey Metzner, a Colorado psychiatrist(and a noted “advocate” of prisoners with mental illness and former chair of the APA Committee on Judicial Action) who has advised the court-appointed special master overseeing mental healthcare in California prisons, said the enclosures offerbetter security and more freedom of movement than alternatives (…). This alternative, Dr. Metzner? Metzner also advised prison officials to refer to the enclosures as therapeutic modules, not cages. “The name is important, because if you call them cages, people inside might feel like animals and respond accordingly,” he said.

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Michael Shaw at @BagNewsNotes: “This is not only one of the saddest, damning and most ironic photos I’ve ever seen, but it’s a process I, as a clinical psychologist, would refuse to participate in.”

Photo by Lucy Nicholson (larger photo set at MSNBC)

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I shared some feelings about these “therapy cages” in 2010. 

Jeffrey Metzner, a Colorado psychiatrist(and a noted “advocate” of prisoners with mental illness and former chair of the APA Committee on Judicial Action) who has advised the court-appointed special master overseeing mental healthcare in California prisons, said the enclosures offerbetter security and more freedom of movement than alternatives (…).

This alternative, Dr. Metzner?

Metzner also advised prison officials to refer to the enclosures as therapeutic modules, not cages. “The name is important, because if you call them cages, people inside might feel like animals and respond accordingly,” he said.

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    Sometimes, prisoners are found to have more violent forms of mental illness, not diagnosed until jailed. They are found...
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    There is no therapy that requires cages…this is occurring now, in our world?
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