I'm not full-up with how great we are, readers. I'm more embarrassed and ashamed of this state every day.
"Patient's death under investigation; Concerns raised on level of force" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | May 7, 2009
CHARLTON - A mental health patient at Bridgewater State Hospital, a corrections facility that sought to keep the man committed there out of concern for his safety, died Monday night after a scuffle with corrections officers.
So the guy was in a JAIL without having committed a crime?
The Charlton man, 23-year-old Joshua Messier, stopped breathing as officers restrained him after he allegedly hit one of them, according to officials with the state Department of Correction and the Plymouth district attorney's office.
Messier, who was diagnosed five years ago with schizophrenia and paranoia, was brought by ambulance to Signature Healthcare's Brockton Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour after the reported scuffle....
So WHAT PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS was he on?
Messier's family and Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, an inmate advocacy group, raised concerns of brutality after learning that Messier reportedly screamed for help, saying he could not breathe, as officers tried to subdue the young man, who wanted to become a computer technician....
I guess he wasn't the right type of criminal for Massachusetts.
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