Shield Alert: Free Kedrick Tucker from psychiatric imprisonment!

By Jim Gottstein | July 26, 2024

Shield Alert: Free Kedrick Tucker from psychiatric imprisonment! Kedrick Tucker is a songwriter who has been in psychiatric detention since June 21. He has not been told why he is being held; he believes that it was because he published complaints of abuse by psychiatrists. He is currently at Connecticut Valley Hospital (CVH), Battell Hall,…

Shield Alert: End the harmful forced drugging and 6-year-long psychiatric incarceration of Lisa Espinosa

By Jim Gottstein | July 23, 2024

Please put an end to the harmful forced drugging and 6-year-long psychiatric incarceration of Lisa Espinosa July 25, 2024.  Annie Singer has posted a video on YouTube and TikTok to engage social media on behalf of Lisa. You can share these to support Lisa. July 23, 2024.   After five years in Connecticut Valley Hospital, Lisa…

Shield Alert: Stop Jason Hewlett from being over-drugged!

By Jim Gottstein | July 18, 2024

Stop Jason Hewlett from being over-drugged! July 24, 2024 Update.  Jason also wants people to call his team leader, Lisa Florence, at 607-773-4677 to demand they stop harming him by increasing his clozapine dose against his will. July 18, 20204.  Jason Hewlett is on a 90-day psychiatric incarceration order at Greater Binghamton Health Center in Binghamton,…

Shield Alert: Stop David Russell from being forcibly electroshocked

By Jim Gottstein | July 14, 2024

July 24, 2024 Update David was discharged from the Mayo Clinic Psychiatric Prison today to a somewhat less restrictive IRTS (Intensive Residential Treatment Services) and we have not been able to regain contact with him yet. He is supposed to have access to his cell phone there, but didn’t know if the guardian paid his…

Shield Alert: Juba Mahiou Discharged, but Still Subjected to Forced Drugging

By Jim Gottstein | July 14, 2024

Juba Discharged, but Still Subject to Forced Drugging July 15, 2024. Juba has been freed from the CISSS de Laval institution in Quebec!  It is unknown to what extent the MindFreedom Shield Alert might have resulted in freeing Juba, but he was locked up for five or six months before his Alert went out and…

Shield Alert: Stop the Forced Drugging of Donna Jeans

By Jim Gottstein | July 11, 2024

Update:  Correction to E-mail Address July 12, 2022.  The e-mail address we sent out earlier is incorrect.  It is missing a period.  The correct address is practice3.bridlington@nhs.net.  We profusely apologize for our mistake.  If you previously sent an e-mail to the wrong address we would be grateful if you could resend it to the correct address. STOP THE…

Shield Alert: Marcela Freed!!

By Jim Gottstein | July 2, 2024

Marcela Freed!! Marcela was freed just a few hours after we started putting pressure on them!  She believes it got her freed.  Thank you to everyone who supported Marcela!! Free Marcela Musgrove from psychiatric imprisonment in South Carolina! Marcela Musgrove is being held against her will at Lighthouse Behavioral Health Hospital in Conway, South Carolina.…

Shield Alert: Jill Kesti freed, but still subjected to forced drugging

By Jim Gottstein | June 29, 2024

Jill Kesti Freed! . . . But July 3, 2024. Jill has been freed!   She just got home from a 13.5 hour drive.  She has a good friend who drove her home at her own expense.  We suspect she would have otherwise been dumped onto the streets 600 miles from her home. Jill believes she…

William Mahler

Shield Alert: William Mahler Freed from Psychiatric Imprisonment in Massachusetts

By Jim Gottstein | April 28, 2024

We Won! May 29, 2024. It is a perhaps a stretch to say we won, but William was ordered freed after the hearing at which at least 15 MindFreedom Shield supporters of William attended by Zoom.  Unlike most lawyers in these cases, starkly demonstrated by the ones before William’s, Tamara Barney did a terrific job…

Harmful legislation alert: Oppose Idaho bill allowing 12-year-olds to be electroshocked

By Jim Gottstein | March 25, 2024

Update: Revised Bill Passes April 8, 2024.  The amended bill passed both the House and the Senate on April 3rd and the Governor signed it on April 8th.  It is set to go into effect July 1st. Update:  Not Dead Yet? March 28, 2024. There was a series of procedural moves resulting in an amendment…

Shield Alert: Free Kedrick Tucker from psychiatric imprisonment!

By Jim Gottstein | July 26, 2024

Shield Alert: Free Kedrick Tucker from psychiatric imprisonment! Kedrick Tucker is a songwriter who has been in psychiatric detention since June 21. He has not been told why he is being held; he believes that it was because he published complaints of abuse by psychiatrists. He is currently at Connecticut Valley Hospital (CVH), Battell Hall,…

Shield Alert: End the harmful forced drugging and 6-year-long psychiatric incarceration of Lisa Espinosa

By Jim Gottstein | July 23, 2024

Please put an end to the harmful forced drugging and 6-year-long psychiatric incarceration of Lisa Espinosa July 25, 2024.  Annie Singer has posted a video on YouTube and TikTok to engage social media on behalf of Lisa. You can share these to support Lisa. July 23, 2024.   After five years in Connecticut Valley Hospital, Lisa…

Shield Alert: Stop Jason Hewlett from being over-drugged!

By Jim Gottstein | July 18, 2024

Stop Jason Hewlett from being over-drugged! July 24, 2024 Update.  Jason also wants people to call his team leader, Lisa Florence, at 607-773-4677 to demand they stop harming him by increasing his clozapine dose against his will. July 18, 20204.  Jason Hewlett is on a 90-day psychiatric incarceration order at Greater Binghamton Health Center in Binghamton,…

Shield Alert: Stop David Russell from being forcibly electroshocked

By Jim Gottstein | July 14, 2024

July 24, 2024 Update David was discharged from the Mayo Clinic Psychiatric Prison today to a somewhat less restrictive IRTS (Intensive Residential Treatment Services) and we have not been able to regain contact with him yet. He is supposed to have access to his cell phone there, but didn’t know if the guardian paid his…

Shield Alert: Juba Mahiou Discharged, but Still Subjected to Forced Drugging

By Jim Gottstein | July 14, 2024

Juba Discharged, but Still Subject to Forced Drugging July 15, 2024. Juba has been freed from the CISSS de Laval institution in Quebec!  It is unknown to what extent the MindFreedom Shield Alert might have resulted in freeing Juba, but he was locked up for five or six months before his Alert went out and…

Shield Alert: Stop the Forced Drugging of Donna Jeans

By Jim Gottstein | July 11, 2024

Update:  Correction to E-mail Address July 12, 2022.  The e-mail address we sent out earlier is incorrect.  It is missing a period.  The correct address is practice3.bridlington@nhs.net.  We profusely apologize for our mistake.  If you previously sent an e-mail to the wrong address we would be grateful if you could resend it to the correct address. STOP THE…

Shield Alert: Marcela Freed!!

By Jim Gottstein | July 2, 2024

Marcela Freed!! Marcela was freed just a few hours after we started putting pressure on them!  She believes it got her freed.  Thank you to everyone who supported Marcela!! Free Marcela Musgrove from psychiatric imprisonment in South Carolina! Marcela Musgrove is being held against her will at Lighthouse Behavioral Health Hospital in Conway, South Carolina.…

Shield Alert: Jill Kesti freed, but still subjected to forced drugging

By Jim Gottstein | June 29, 2024

Jill Kesti Freed! . . . But July 3, 2024. Jill has been freed!   She just got home from a 13.5 hour drive.  She has a good friend who drove her home at her own expense.  We suspect she would have otherwise been dumped onto the streets 600 miles from her home. Jill believes she…

William Mahler

Shield Alert: William Mahler Freed from Psychiatric Imprisonment in Massachusetts

By Jim Gottstein | April 28, 2024

We Won! May 29, 2024. It is a perhaps a stretch to say we won, but William was ordered freed after the hearing at which at least 15 MindFreedom Shield supporters of William attended by Zoom.  Unlike most lawyers in these cases, starkly demonstrated by the ones before William’s, Tamara Barney did a terrific job…

Harmful legislation alert: Oppose Idaho bill allowing 12-year-olds to be electroshocked

By Jim Gottstein | March 25, 2024

Update: Revised Bill Passes April 8, 2024.  The amended bill passed both the House and the Senate on April 3rd and the Governor signed it on April 8th.  It is set to go into effect July 1st. Update:  Not Dead Yet? March 28, 2024. There was a series of procedural moves resulting in an amendment…