:-(
-- for a variety of reasons, readers, but no one deserves this!!!!
Need an RP3, readers?
"Tina Wambolt knew she needed help battling her alcoholism. What she didn't need were strip searches and a cell in the Framingham women's prison.
Wambolt, 33, of Ashby, fell through a crack in the Massachusetts legal system, into a gap that routinely sends women with serious alcohol or substance abuse problems to the women's state prison when no beds are available in treatment facilities.
"They treat you awful, you feel physically violated, and it's just hell. I shouldn't have had to do that," Wambolt said. "I'm not a criminal."
Wambolt's ordeal last September was triggered by a Massachusetts law known as "Section 35," a civil statute under which a person can be involuntarily committed for up to 30 days if a judge rules that he or she poses a threat to himself, herself, or others....
"They haven't committed a crime," said Representative Kay Khan, a Newton Democrat... "Why should they be in a prison?"
Welcome to AmeriKa!!!!!
Read the rest of Wambolt's story HERE"
