She often remarks that she is proud of her diagnosis as a sociopath, and the other girls feel somehow fearless when in her company. The dark side of Lisa’s personality, however, can appear very abruptly, and she goes from being extraordinarily nice to the “new patient” Susanna to perversely cruel in a matter of seconds. Lisa is also very proud of her history as an ex-junkie who never sleeps, barely eats, and never takes her medication, using it instead as a barter item to get favors out of the other patients in the ward. She almost never speaks of any family except her brother, but even that relationship is not defined to any extent. She displays many characteristic patterns of behavior which indicate the diagnosis of an antisocial personality disorder or a sociopath.
McMurphy claims to be sane, and states that he is only here to get out of being in jail. McMurphy tries to show the guys in the ward that they do not have to listen and conform to the authority. Ms Ratchet is trying to get all the guys to conform to her ways, or else they have pain and suffering delivered to them. Ms Ratchet acts out unnecessarily and over emphasizes her punishments. It is obvious that Ratchet is the real insane person, but it does not matter because she is the one with the authority.
McMurphy was portrayed as a heroic individual that sacrificed themselves for others. He, in the end, set the patients free during a long battle with the head Nurse. Nurse Ratched, who was a former Army nurse, was isolated because she always wanted a constant desire of control over everybody in the ward. She stayed inside her Nurse’s station, and always wanted to have power over all the patients, which caused the affect of war upon her. She wanted to be the head of everything, and no one was to be stricter than her.
Since McMurphy is committed Nurse Ratched sees that she can control how long he stays in the hospital. * After the ward is taken to the hospital’s pool McMurphy realizes that he cannot get out of the hospital after his sentence is over. Understanding the new information, McMurphy starts acting more conservatively towards Nurse Ratched. * In the next group meeting Cheswick complains about the rationing of cigarettes. McMurphy doesn’t support Cheswick leading Cheswick to be sent to Disturbed.
The government is legally required to provide the same medical care for prisoners as other members of society. Penitentiary legal system does recognize that prisoners should not lose all their human rights just because of incarceration. The cost it has on the society, and the ramifications of the prisoners going untreated. States are court ordered to provide reasonable levels of health care to prisoners. Not only are health risks needed to be taken into account, but also mental drug and psychological issues need attention during
Nurse Ratched is an ex army nurse who wants things her way and if they aren’t she will do whatever she can to get them to, her power is challenged by McMurphy when he arrives on the ward; she is used to dealing with and controlling very insecure and submissive men and isn’t used to someone of McMurphy’s character. It is amusing to see the banter fly back and forth between her and Mack, watching as he attempts to overthrow her regime and make her loose control, he achieves this on several occasions but sadly in the end her power overcomes his own; It is surmise able that she herself looses in the end due to the fact that most of her patients decide to leave, Chief Broom escapes and Billy Bibbit kills himself due to her directly threatening him to such a point that he takes his own life. Mrs Bibbit may well deserve to be in an institution similar to her son and it is perfectly obvious to many if not all that there is nothing wrong with Billy himself other than a perfectly acceptable stutter. His mother belittles him to such an extent that his mind does not work in the same way as an adult. Chief remembers seeing him in the past with his head laid in her lap in much the same way as an infant or
Furthermore, the psychological, physical care and treatment of prisoners should be studied and a protocol that either rehabilitates or punishes the prisoners should be created and the “system” or better yet, our government should decide if prisons are used for rehabilitation or for punishment. Either way, once a standard that is created by scientific means is set, it should be the standard practice in all prisons whether private or publicly owned. It is not fair for tax payers to pay $28 a day for a murderer to stay in a private prison and $36 a day for a person with the same or lesser charge to stay in the state penitentiary. The accountability should fall on the institutes that oversee the prisons such as the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Prisons and the states that the prisons reside
Although McMurphy belittles Ratched whenever he has the chance to, she has the power to make him do whatever she says without getting harmed. For example, if McMurphy annoys Nurse Ratched enough, she can send him to do chores or something worse but if Nurse Ratched annoys McMurphy, he can’t do anything about it but annoy her back. Also other people in the ward could influence Nurse Ratched to win. In part 2, on the way to the swimming pool, Cheswick came back from Disturbed, which is where Nurse Ratched sent him for being disobedient. Cheswick tells McMurphy why he understands McMurphy doesn’t rebel against Ratched anymore (but really McMurphy was only not rebelling against her because he thought it would be able to leave as soon as possible).
These types of clients need a different type of program or plan from a case manager. They need to develop skill to deal with what has happened in their lives to bring them to their current state in that moment in time. Within the corrections, it is believed that all need the assistance. All inmates or clients in this type of setting have wound up here in some sort of manner that needs to be evaluated and corrected. The idea behind corrections facilities is to take a criminal and rehabilitate them so that they may reenter society a better person and as one that may become a contributor to society instead of taking from society.
The strategies are programmes for prisoners, situational approaches and institutional reforms. Gang violence can be addressed by having programmes for prisoners that support rehabilitative measures in a supportive and opportunity enhancing surroundings (Dennis, 2003). Situational approaches advocate for single cell accommodation, giving prisoners much control over their setting and elimination of blind spots that lead to violence. Institutional reforms advocate for staff training and the elimination of formal and coercive managerial practices in