by CCHR CO | May 17, 2021 | General News
All human rights organizations set forth codes by which they align their purposes and activities. The Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights articulates the guiding principles and goals of Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). In 2017, Dr. Dainius Pūras, the...
by CCHR CO | Jan 23, 2021 | General News
The American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) recent apology for its support of structural racism understates psychiatry’s racial human rights abuses and its long history of instigating racism by providing “rationales” that justified and perpetuated it. Over the last...
by CCHR CO | Jan 6, 2013 | News for Colorado
In all the speculation about what is causing the recent wave of shootings, the one thing they have in common has been largely ignored when it should be receiving urgent attention: the shooters have received psychiatric treatment, which these days almost always means...
by CCHR CO | Sep 4, 2010 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, News for Colorado
CMHIP withholds data requested by the district attorney and county coroner An obese man who died in the custody of the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) suffocated while being restrained face down on a table. He may have been hog-tied. Troy Allen...
by CCHR CO | Aug 19, 2010 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, News for Colorado
Facility received 1,100 patient complaints in 2008-09, reported 11 patient deaths in 2009 Another person has died while in the custody of the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP), according to the Denver...
