Unger met prisoners who described their grievances to him, which included mental and physical brutality, poor food and conditions, and misuse of drugs in controlling prisoners.
They also had a litany of other grievances: mental and physical brutality, the misuse of psychotropic drugs in controlling prisoners, and poor food.
Whereas Mr Yu's earlier stories were violent and bloody, in this work the brutality is mental: the cruelty of a life foreshortened; the unwarranted destruction of a marriage; the simple, horrific savagery of everyday life.
The brutality and mental cruelty of Mr. Visser is shown to stem from his militaristic upbringing, but, as in most of Vestdijk's novels, psychoanalytical intentions tend to swamp spiritual and human considerations in the work.
Kerby Jean Raymond's conscious sportswear Pyer Moss often includes messages about racism, police brutality, and mental health in their designs.
Psyched in San Francisco started a listening project called Sidewalk Talk in May of 2015 after the mass shootings, police brutality and mental health stigma were visibly rising.
The current crisis of brutality and mental illness overwhelming Rikers Island, one of the country's most notoriously violent jail complexes, can be traced back to systematic policy failures and staff reductions seen under former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I), a new report claims.
This would have constituted a living hell for someone whose life had been marred with personal tragedy, mental ill health and police brutality".
She is a philosophical girl, wondering: "Does anyone get what they want?" and "What if there are no answers to anything?" But in the face of her mother's mental instability, her father's brutality, fecklessness and faithlessness, her brother's disappearance, the cruelty of her peers, she perseveres and prevails.
The koan is a mental version of the bodily brutalities of training: resistant, frustrating, impossible to assimilate, it is meant to shock the monk into sudden insight.
