Platt quotes:
> Pirsig warned, "The idea that biological crimes can
> be ended by intellect
> alone, that you can talk crime to death, doesn't
> work. Intellectual patterns can
> not directly control biological patterns. Only
> social patterns can control
> biological patterns, and the instrument of
> conversation between society and
> biology is not words. The instrument of conversation
> between society and
> biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and
> his gun." (Lila, 24)
SA: The state of PA wants the state to be hands-off
in dealing with juvenile criminals and delinquents.
Over the weekend seven incident reports went to the
state (an automatic policy). The placement facility
was contacted by the state asking them why so many
hands-on occurred, and that the placement facility
needs to stop these hands-on events. All the hands-on
over the weekend involved residents physically
attacking staff by punching and jumping on them in
predation situations where the residents hid or
rapidly snapped and attacked the staff. The placement
facility, the administration, said the staff shouldn't
be doing hands-on in these situations. Their saying
the staff should be talking to the residents and
calming them down. Meanwhile the residents are
laughing and thinking it is fun to do these kinds of
predation tactics, because they know nothing will
happen to them. That staff will just sit down with
them and talk to them about how wrong it is that they
are doing this after the dust settles. Giving them
reasons why it's wrong and how they are hurting
people. Then the next day comes and they do it all
over again. The administration says the staff needs
to talk to them when they attack them, and not put
hands-on. I know if one of those residents come after
me and try to hurt me, I'm defending myself and doing
everything I can, physically, to protect myself - are
they nuts or what!
The administration says if they do hit staff,
then they need 302ed, but when I talked to the
psychiatrist on staff where the resident was being
302ed she remembered this same resident from a week or
two ago, and said she is not crazy and that her
actions are behavior problems not mentally
uncontrollable actions. The resident knows exactly
what's she's doing, but the administration says we
can't put hands-on her and have to talk to her, and if
she hits somebody to 302 her. Yet, outside agencies
are saying she's performing actions that only lead her
to placement facilities like ours. The system is a
mess. The administration says when she hits she
doesn't belong in the placement facility, and the
outside mental health agencies are saying placement
facilities like ours are where she belongs because
she's not mentally unstable. So-where does she
belong? The mental health lady I talked to on the
phone said charges should be pressed against the
resident, which I know could lead her to a lock-down
juvenile detention center. Yet, the administration
doesn't want anybody filing charges against residents
because their afraid outside agencies will come down
on them. So, what do the staff do in the meanwhile?
Their supposed to get punched and just talk to them.
Crazy huh!
snow flakes,
SA
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