Short v. Oig Beto Unit, 2008 WL 2074051 (E.D.Tex. 2008)
In his complaint, Short says that “the equipment” is causing him to suffer bodily injury in many ways, and putting him a state of mind that amounts to constant torture. He says that officers have told him that they are tired of how he is being treated by the equipment.
Short explains that the Office of the Inspector General at the Beto Unit has been monitoring him for years with a transmitter resistor, satellite wire, a “bug wire-tap,” using audio and video, with a “forensic ex-military cutting edge voice satellite,” which he says is an illegal black-market security system. He says that this amounts to an invasion of his privacy and he believes that the system is plugged into a computer.
Short says that he hears the voices of his family members in the air of his cell, and so he believes that the equipment has recorded their voices from their visits to him. He says that he has suffered seizures, migraines, and chest pains as a result of electrical impulses in the equipment and that he heard amplified noises. Short says that the equipment picks up conversations and thoughts, even when he is sleeping, and that it gives him nightmares because of “non-stop talking at close range in my ears while I sleep."
Tinnitus, perhaps?
I don't have any professional training. I just have compassion for those who suffer from mental and emotional difficulties.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what happened to Short, but I hope that he received the appropriate care.
Too often the mentally ill become trapped in jail or prison, and if they had received the correct therapy, medications, etc. earlier in their lives, they would not be found in the criminal justice system at all.
The only difference between THEM and US is God's Grace.