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| Jailed, some mentally ill inmates land in lockdown |
| By heraldextra.com- Adam Geller |
| Published: 09/23/2014 |
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Day or night, the lights inside cell 135C of central New Mexico's Valencia County Detention Center were always on. Locked inside, alone, for a total of eight months, Jan Green says she heard the constant drip of water from a broken showerhead, pitting the concrjjete floor where she curled up on a sleeping pad. When she was awake, Green — a 52-year-old computer technician diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder — rocked back and forth on a three-foot bench, hour after hour, confiding in an imaginary companion. "I didn't have a calendar or a pencil. I didn't have anything. So ... I pretended I had a friend in there with me," says Green. "I would talk and hold conversations just in my little crazy world, I guess you would say, just to keep me company." Read More. |
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