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| Glimpse of life behind bars for mentally ill |
| By bnd.com |
| Published: 11/20/2009 |
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Reporters could see but couldn't talk to Tamms Correctional Center inmate Faygie Fields as he bounced on his toes, smiled and waved wildly from behind a perforated steel door Thursday. Illinois Department of Corrections Director Michael Randle opened the prison to the media as part of his 10-point reform plan for Tamms, and he escorted about 10 reporters on a tour guided by Warden Yolande Johnson. Fields, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, was included in the News-Democrat series Trapped in Tamms. Fields battled for six years to be moved from the disciplinary unit to the prison's mental health or "special treatment" unit -- JPod. He remains alone in a cell for 23 hours a day, but receives counseling. Read More. |
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