Like Father, Like Son?
by Alix LeePublish: Nov 24, 2024General NonfictionBook Overview
A rebellious teenager is handcuffed and bundled into a black maria, his destination only revealed upon arrival: a padded cell within a high-security mental hospital, something halfway between a regular mental hospital and a prison; a home for the criminally or dangerously insane.After this new arrival's period of solitary confinment ended, disturbing, but previously unimagined insights into how the system worked would be progressively revealed to him by people like the two convicted murderers he shared a cell with. Details such as the hospital's fine reputation throughout the country for 'curing' homosexuals through electric shock treatment said to be administered to the genitals. And yet none of this came as a shock to the adolescent. Why?
This is not a work of fiction, however, but a 'memoir'. The names of SOME of the characters in this story have been changed. But apart from that, everything you will read in this book is true.
