Quoting Heather Perella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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!
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