She Was Released from Prison After 18 Years -Now What? • This is Crazy 3/3 • BRAVE NEW FILMS

America is “treating” mental illness through incarceration and it's costing us our humanity. For too many, the end of a prison term does not mean freedom. Instead, it's part of a vicious...

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I was able to walk out the gates of Bedford hills after 18 long years... and I thoughtthat I was okay–in there. I thought that I was as normal as normal can be, but theday that they opened that gate I realized... that I wasn't well. I, after being incarceratedfor 18 years it took me three hours to leave off those grounds. I just could not put onefoot in front of the other, go outside that gate. I kept looking at the gate in me, andthat's because that's all I've seen for so many years was me and a bar, me and a gate,me and a needle, me and pill; and to know that I had freedom from all of that rightnow was just too much.Release from prison, the end of a long terrible nightmare for individuals who suffer frommental illness. Sadly however,...