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I am having a hard time with this (daughter in jail)
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<blockquote data-quote="Marcie Mac" data-source="post: 212859" data-attributes="member: 47"><p>Bran - I think at this point there are not a lot of options. You can hire an attorney to advocate for her as the Public Defenders are totally useless. I think you will have to wait till she appears in court. Between now and then I would urge you to do a Parent Report (you can find how to do that in the Archives her on the board) Give a copy to the judge, DA, and anyone else in the system that comes across her name.</p><p>Request that the judge have a complete mental evaluation. Does she have a PO?? I would also give them a copy. Talk to the officer of the day,or officer in charge at the jail and tell them she needs medications. You are not allowed to bring them to her, she will have to see their psychiatric doctor on staff, but make sure he has a copy of the Parent Report as well.</p><p> </p><p>Believe me, have so been there done that with my difficult child at the same age. They took him out of the general population and housed him in the medical section. I had to go back to court I don't know how many times to get a court order for his medications and no one followed the judges order, and on the rare times they did, his medications disappeared when they moved him from jail to jail (they do that here with Juvenilles because of an overcrowding law) </p><p> </p><p>And as a suggestion, get yourself to the doctor and get some medications to deal with this. The first year of difficult children involvement in the legal system, my easy child's Christmas was totally ruined for him as I had such a bout of depression over difficult child I couldn't even celebrate Xmas. I beat myself up for putting him in jail the first time but in hindsight it saved his life he was that out of control. </p><p> </p><p>You are rapidly running out of time age wise to help her - once she reaches 18 you have no more imput. Try and look at her jail time as respite for you to recoup and recharge and figure out what the best way to approach all this is. Unless that Residential Treatment Center (RTC) you have in mind is a lockdown one, chances are she is going to leave, and you will be back to square one.</p><p> </p><p>Marcie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcie Mac, post: 212859, member: 47"] Bran - I think at this point there are not a lot of options. You can hire an attorney to advocate for her as the Public Defenders are totally useless. I think you will have to wait till she appears in court. Between now and then I would urge you to do a Parent Report (you can find how to do that in the Archives her on the board) Give a copy to the judge, DA, and anyone else in the system that comes across her name. Request that the judge have a complete mental evaluation. Does she have a PO?? I would also give them a copy. Talk to the officer of the day,or officer in charge at the jail and tell them she needs medications. You are not allowed to bring them to her, she will have to see their psychiatric doctor on staff, but make sure he has a copy of the Parent Report as well. Believe me, have so been there done that with my difficult child at the same age. They took him out of the general population and housed him in the medical section. I had to go back to court I don't know how many times to get a court order for his medications and no one followed the judges order, and on the rare times they did, his medications disappeared when they moved him from jail to jail (they do that here with Juvenilles because of an overcrowding law) And as a suggestion, get yourself to the doctor and get some medications to deal with this. The first year of difficult children involvement in the legal system, my easy child's Christmas was totally ruined for him as I had such a bout of depression over difficult child I couldn't even celebrate Xmas. I beat myself up for putting him in jail the first time but in hindsight it saved his life he was that out of control. You are rapidly running out of time age wise to help her - once she reaches 18 you have no more imput. Try and look at her jail time as respite for you to recoup and recharge and figure out what the best way to approach all this is. Unless that Residential Treatment Center (RTC) you have in mind is a lockdown one, chances are she is going to leave, and you will be back to square one. Marcie [/QUOTE]
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