PUNISHMENT INSTEAD OF TREATMENT

PUNISHMENT INSTEAD OF TREATMENT~Corrections officers at Ionia Maximum Correctional Facility found 19yr.old Kevin DeMott banging his head against a blood-stained cell wall.

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was 11, inmate No. 608233 had languished in solitary for four months, sometimes without the psychotropic medication his psychiatrist prescribed. Normally 5-foot-10 and 171 pounds, he had lost 25 pounds

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