And just two weeks ago, not far from the pristine capital, a mob of a hundred and fifty Muslims ran after a mentally handicapped, low-caste Christian girl, wanting to burn her alive for having held in her hand — this was the rumor in her neighborhood — a singed Islamic manual.
Los Angeles officials announced Wednesday the launch of an alternative sentencing program aimed at diverting mentally ill, low-level offenders from jail into treatment, a project they hope will signal a dramatic shift for the county's criminal justice system.
IG Report at 90, and 183 times during March 2003 in the interrogation of KSM, see id. at 91. Zubaydah, I remind you, was the mentally ill, low-level al Qaeda functionary who, under torture, spun many a fanciful tale of al Qaeda plots.
Reports by NGOs and the media regarding the widespread maltreatment of the mentally in low-income countries of sub-Saharan Africa, including graphic images of people in chains, have provoked shock and outrage amongst many observers, and led to urgent calls for reform.
Conflicting emotions and delusion results in unwholesome acts which bring us low, mentally, physically, energetically, spiritually and psychically.
However, desire for social distance from the mentally ill was low in the general population when examined in the National Mental Health Survey of Sri Lanka using qualitative methodology [ 28].
In line with other QoL research in severely mentally ill patients, low QoL ratings were found in the domains of social contacts, finances and general life-satisfaction, as well as for the subscale leading a "normal" life.
Some of the prisoners you'll encounter may have a short temper, or are mentally ill, of low intelligence, or just plain bad.
The announcement of the planning process was met with skepticism by some advocates for the city's homeless, who argued that there was already ample evidence on how to solve the problem, mainly by providing more money for supportive housing for the mentally ill and low-income housing for indigent families.
