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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 748927" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Overcome Mom, I am very concerned. What you describe is horribly backward and inhumane. I am in California. We were so bad that medical got taken over by Federal receivership because we were killing too many people. I mean, not me, but the system. For 25 years the courts as much as ran medical in California prisons. It got better. But I guess this is what it takes. We had an organization that kept filing class action lawsuit after lawsuit, and they won for prisoners. It's a beautiful thing. That's how I ended up working in prisons, because prisons were forced to hire doctors.</p><p></p><p>Anyway. That's the story of it. I hate for him that he is in this situation. Overcome mom. Please, please keep posting. Or write to me through private message.</p><p></p><p>I would urge him to leave the state, but it sounds like it does not get better, if he has problems in multiple states. Will he be on parole/probation when he is released? I mean, will he have reporting requirements? </p><p></p><p>I don't remember the specific drugs he uses. Why do you think he loses the jobs? Is it irresponsibility, or being under the influence, or what? What is his personality like? Do you believe that he is trying to help himself? How is your relationship to him? I wish he could come here. We are a small city, and not well off. But there are services. Faith based and public. And I saw with my own eyes that men and women were helped. The man that runs that Rescue Mission is a retired pastor. My son says he is very nice. I was going to AA (long story) and I met a number of women who were in programs, too. I know people are helped. In California there are jobs programs, too. (I guess there still are. I used to do that for a living too. Send people to vocational training programs.)</p><p></p><p>You know overcome mom. His situation is not that bad. It seems overwhelming, but turning things around just takes one step at a time. There's hope. I'm trying to guess the state you are in. That would be so positively medieval. Not to be prejudiced against states, but gee whiz. That's terrible.</p><p></p><p>At 25 he is still under the age cut off I think for Job Corps, which I think is 26. That would be great. My son went. It's free room and board, and free, good trainings. Good supervision and they have drug treatment. There are sites all over the country. My son went to one near San Francisco. In paradise. He hated it, but what does he know?</p><p></p><p>Gosh. If we could get him to Alaska he could work in the fisheries or fishing boats and make 60k a summer, I think it was, somebody told me. If he is getting all of those jobs, he's got a lot going for him. Really. I feel so bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 748927, member: 18958"] Overcome Mom, I am very concerned. What you describe is horribly backward and inhumane. I am in California. We were so bad that medical got taken over by Federal receivership because we were killing too many people. I mean, not me, but the system. For 25 years the courts as much as ran medical in California prisons. It got better. But I guess this is what it takes. We had an organization that kept filing class action lawsuit after lawsuit, and they won for prisoners. It's a beautiful thing. That's how I ended up working in prisons, because prisons were forced to hire doctors. Anyway. That's the story of it. I hate for him that he is in this situation. Overcome mom. Please, please keep posting. Or write to me through private message. I would urge him to leave the state, but it sounds like it does not get better, if he has problems in multiple states. Will he be on parole/probation when he is released? I mean, will he have reporting requirements? I don't remember the specific drugs he uses. Why do you think he loses the jobs? Is it irresponsibility, or being under the influence, or what? What is his personality like? Do you believe that he is trying to help himself? How is your relationship to him? I wish he could come here. We are a small city, and not well off. But there are services. Faith based and public. And I saw with my own eyes that men and women were helped. The man that runs that Rescue Mission is a retired pastor. My son says he is very nice. I was going to AA (long story) and I met a number of women who were in programs, too. I know people are helped. In California there are jobs programs, too. (I guess there still are. I used to do that for a living too. Send people to vocational training programs.) You know overcome mom. His situation is not that bad. It seems overwhelming, but turning things around just takes one step at a time. There's hope. I'm trying to guess the state you are in. That would be so positively medieval. Not to be prejudiced against states, but gee whiz. That's terrible. At 25 he is still under the age cut off I think for Job Corps, which I think is 26. That would be great. My son went. It's free room and board, and free, good trainings. Good supervision and they have drug treatment. There are sites all over the country. My son went to one near San Francisco. In paradise. He hated it, but what does he know? Gosh. If we could get him to Alaska he could work in the fisheries or fishing boats and make 60k a summer, I think it was, somebody told me. If he is getting all of those jobs, he's got a lot going for him. Really. I feel so bad. [/QUOTE]
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