general population. i ve been diagnosed with clinical depression and extreme stressful situations. i hear voices, noise-induced paranoia. anxiety attacks. sometimes when you get into a big crowd, you know, your mental illness seems to just explode. and it got to the point where i didn t want to live anymore. i just wanted to kill myself, you know, my mental illness was so bad. terry was transferred to the rtu, where he received treatment to help him cope with this stressful environment. i was given some one-on-one therapy, and i was also put into group therapy. they got me into school. i was able to get my ged, which helped my self-esteem. terry now lives in general population. his cellmates also came from the rtu. it seems like they kind of seem to put us together when we get out here because we better understand, you know, our illnesses and our little idiosyncrasies. they go along with being mentally ill. where a lot of people in general population don t understand that. i
our goal is to get people with mental illness out into general population, to have jobs, to go to school and to do everything that everybody else does here. so they re all throughout the facility. most of these guys are going to be returning to the streets. not everyone is sent to prison with a life sentence. and with that in mind, i think i would feel safer and feel better about these people going back to the streets with the kind of skills that we can provide them, instead of just opening the doors when their sentence is done and hoping the best. there are successful graduates of the rtu program. terry mahler has 35 years left on his sentence for his sex offense crime. he was not able to function in
stay up all night because you feel really good and then you start dipping. it could be five minutes and you go to another pole. $50 on the bag. you just you just i was like, man, i just wanna kill myself. this is ridiculous. and then oh, man, i m glad i m alive. but the lithium carbonate keeps you like this. our goal is to get people with mental illness out into general population, to have jobs, to go to school and to do everything that everybody else does here. so they re all throughout the facility. most of these guys are going to be returning to the streets. not everyone is sent to prison with a life sentence. and with that in mind, i think i would feel safer and feel better about these people going back to the streets with the kind of skills that we can provide them, instead of just opening the doors when their sentence is done and hoping the best. there are successful graduates of the rtu program. terry mahler has 35 years left
on his sentence for his sex offense crime. he was not able to function in general population. i ve been diagnosed with clinical depression and extreme stressful situations. i hear voices, noise-induced paranoia. anxiety attacks. sometimes when you get into a big crowd, you know, your mental illness seems to just explode. and it got to the point where i didn t want to live anymore. i just wanted to kill myself, you know, my mental illness was so bad. terry was transferred to the rtu, where he received treatment to help him cope with this stressful environment. i was given some one-on-one therapy, and i was also put into group therapy. they got me into school. i was able to get my ged, which helped my self-esteem. terry now lives in general population. his cellmates also came from the rtu. it seems like they kind of seem to put us together when we
stressful situations. i hear voices, noise-induced paranoia. anxiety attacks. sometimes when you get into a big crowd, you know, your mental illness seems to just explode. and it got to the point where i didn t want to live anymore. i just wanted to kill myself, you know, my mental illness was so bad. terry was transferred to the rtu, where he received treatment to help him cope with this stressful environment. i was given some one-on-one therapy, and i was also put into group therapy. they got me into school. i was able to get my ged, which helped my self-esteem. terry now lives in general population. his cellmates also came from the rtu. it seems like they kind of seem to put us together when we get out here because we better understand, you know, our illnesses and our little idiosyncrasies. they go along with being mentally ill. where a lot of people in general