It is difficult to acquire depth perception on SMI without seeing it up close.  Sheriffs and wardens across this country are tasked with the challenge of having to manage facilities that are populated with ever-increasing numbers of inmates who are afflicted with SMI.   Seeing SMI up close provides these professionals with an opportunity to acquire insight into these tragic … Continue reading Richmond Sheriff: Mentally Ill Do Not Belong in Correctional Facilities

The price we are willing to pay to curtail the insanity defense in the courtroom is death and destruction in the community.  As things stand, the state seems to require that a deposit in the form of injury or death be made before it can act to protect the community. The criminal justice system and … Continue reading The Cost of the Insanity-Free Courtroom

A new link was added today under the category of Mens Rea.  While DJP does not subscribe to the dream theory referenced by the title, or the stress as trigger theory on the periphery, most of the central theory is worthy of consideration - that psychosis may well be a sleep disorder of sorts, involving a … Continue reading re: a link added to our reference page

The law is contemptuous toward the implications of incompetency to stand trial. Duejusticeproject will not tread lightly on this topic.  We charge that the law is willful and unjust in ignoring the implications of incompetence to stand trial.  The law does not concern itself about what predominantly causes incompetency to stand trial.  It simply rests … Continue reading “Competency Restoration – An Abuse of the Good of Medical Treatment”

1/25/17     A link was added yesterday to an article about the brain damaged defendant.  DJP asserts that the type of brain dysfunction that is central to this paper that is linked to should not be distinguished from severe mental illness where there may be an absence of detectable structural damage to the brain.  In a previous … Continue reading re: a link added to our reference page

On the links and references page, we added a new category with a link to a fascinating article that explores the topic of the inner voice in persons with congenital deafness.  Most of us can relate to being able to “hear” our inner voice.  We have suggested that conceptualizing psychotic disorders or severe mental illness requires … Continue reading In the beginning was the word. Language as device driver of the human mind.

We thank an unknown contributor for a pithy summation of the problem with our society’s discussions on mental illness: ‘Talking about mental illness spreads ignorance far and wide’. The discussions we are having as a society about “mental health” may be raising our awareness about mental health issues, but getting us nowhere closer to understanding … Continue reading Adding Insult To Injury (how the language of mental illness promotes misunderstanding)