Lawsuit Against Isolating Mental Patient Peter Minich

BOSTON — A Brookline woman filed a lawsuit against the state prisons department Monday, saying her 31-year-old son has been restrained for long periods at a state psychiatric hospital in violation of state law.

Joanne Minich said in her complaint filed in Norfolk Superior Court that her son, Peter Minich, has been held in prolonged isolation at Bridgewater State Hospital and continuously deprived of almost all human contact and exercise for more than 6,300 hours since January 2013.

"My son has an illness, in the same sense as someone with cancer or dementia. The last place he belongs is in a seclusion room behind a solid steel door," Joanne Minich said in a statement.

Reported by The Boston Herald on March 31, 2014. Read the entire article:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/03/brookline_woman_sues_state_over_sons_isolation

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