NH IS IN A SILENT STATE OF EMERGENCY BECAUSE NH HAS CLEARLY RUN OUT OF MONEY!
On February 15, 2018, Governor Chris Sununu said in his State Of The State Address:
"As we look back on this past year and recognize our milestones and achievements, we cannot lose sight of New Hampshire's future."
On February 15, 2018, Governor Chris Sununu said in his State Of The State Address:
"Simply put, "Life in New Hampshire is better today than it was one year ago – and that's no accident."
"Today in New Hampshire, the rights of crime victims are stronger than ever before."
"As we look back on this past year and recognize our milestones and achievements, we cannot lose sight of New Hampshire's future."
NH has had 3 separate 10 year plans implemented going as far back as 2000. A NH Mental healthcare Plan, A NH Homeless Plan, A NH Judiciary Branch Reorganization Plan, that has now not only failed miserably, but has dangerously failed at all three within the first 6 years making it much worse than ever before.
424 NH LAW MAKERS WHO ONLY ARE PAID $100 A YEAR, AND ARE THE FOURTH LARGEST LEGISLATURE IN THE WORLD, AND THIS IS THE BEST THAT THEY CAN DO FOR TAX FREE NH?
The following are quoted
from 2018 Articles
Most By Nancy West
InDepth. org
"The State Prison for Men in Concord NH is about 200 over capacity"
"Unlike all other states, mentally ill people in New Hampshire who have been civilly committed to the state psychiatric hospital can be transferred to the State Prison for Men’s Secure Psychiatric Unit just a few miles away in Concord..."
"Patients and inmates are told they can attend various therapy sessions, have visitors, go watch television and go outside, although some choose not to and stay for long periods in their cells, Mike Shaw, a corrections sergeant at SPU said. Some refuse to take showers for days, he said. It is up to them to choose, Shaw said. “There should be orderlies to help them with showers, but there aren’t,” Shaw said."
" Charles Mealer was transferred to the Secure Psychiatric Unit on April 21, 2015, and placed on suicide watch, meaning he was to be checked every 15 minutes. The suicide watch was discontinued on June 22, 2015, and he was found dead in his cell on June 25, 2015, a week after his 47th birthday, according to the lawsuit. The toxicology report showed that Mr. Mealer had a blood level of 620 ng/ml of amitriptyline and 200 ng/ml of nortriptyline at the time of the autopsy...“Given his prescribed dose, the expected level should have been around 100 ng/ml,” the lawsuit said...On June 16, 2015, Mealer was prescribed 100 mg of amitriptyline at bedtime for seven days, then 50 mg at bedtime for seven days, the lawsuit said...The lawsuit was filed in Merrimack County Superior Court last September."
"Patients and inmates are told they can attend various therapy sessions, have visitors, go watch television and go outside, although some choose not to and stay for long periods in their cells, Mike Shaw, a corrections sergeant at SPU said. Some refuse to take showers for days, he said. It is up to them to choose, Shaw said. “There should be orderlies to help them with showers, but there aren’t,” Shaw said."
"One mother testified that she moved her family to Massachusetts so if her mentally ill son ever needed emergency involuntary commitment again, he would never be sent back to SPU."
"Two mothers told lawmakers their daughters are harassed, humiliated, and sometimes “locked down” at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the New Hampshire Prison for Men, and a former patient recounted nearly dying as his pleas for emergency medical care were ignored."
"Two mothers told lawmakers their daughters are harassed, humiliated, and sometimes “locked down” at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the New Hampshire Prison for Men, and a former patient recounted nearly dying as his pleas for emergency medical care were ignored."
"No one should be held in state prison because New Hampshire Hospital, the state psychiatric hospital, doesn’t have a secure enough unit to care for them, Coulter said...She was also concerned about a small number of mentally ill women housed in a separate section of SPU, all on the prison grounds... "
“How would you like it if you had a loved one who had a heart condition and was told, ‘well there’s no room in the emergency room, but we can hold them in the jail and then transfer them later?’” Colorado's Executive Director of The Sheriff's Association, Sheriff Chris Johnson asked."
“This shouldn’t be happening anywhere. It should have ended decades ago everywhere in the United States,” Johnson said."
“This shouldn’t be happening anywhere. It should have ended decades ago everywhere in the United States,” Johnson said."
"And while it appears that many states are in the throes of a variety of serious mental health crises, New Hampshire is unique in imprisoning mentally ill people who haven’t committed a crime just because there is no place else secure enough to house them."
"Beatrice Coulter, a registered nurse who became an outspoken critic of the unit after working there for only a few days before quitting in disgust, testified that housing civilly committed people with mental illness with criminals in prison violates the Constitution and the Americans With Disabilities Act."
"Beatrice Coulter, a registered nurse who became an outspoken critic of the unit after working there for only a few days before quitting in disgust, testified that housing civilly committed people with mental illness with criminals in prison violates the Constitution and the Americans With Disabilities Act."
"On Aug. 21, New Hampshire hit a record with 72 mentally ill people waiting in hospital emergency rooms around the state for a bed at the New Hampshire Hospital, the state-run psychiatric hospital, NH Rep. Ken Snow said...With pressure like that on the system, it’s no time to focus on the few people at the Secure Psychiatric Unit who aren’t there for having committed a crime, Snow said...It doesn’t bother him that some are not in prison because of a crime they committed."
"Snow and other lawmakers have said over and over that the mental health system in New Hampshire is so deeply troubled – with many people waiting in local hospital emergency rooms every day for a psych bed – that the relatively small number of people at SPU who are not being held because of a crime will have to wait. It would be too costly to build a new facility, they say."
"The buck has been passed for way too long, Rep. Renny Cushing said. He traces it back three decades when the New Hampshire Psychiatric Society warned against commingling civilly committed individuals with convicted criminals at the unit."
NOTE: IT WOULD COST $13 MILLION TO BUILD NH A SECURE PSYCHIATRIC UNIT ADDITION ONTO THE STATE'S HOSPITAL.
SO MUCH FOR "NO MAN (OR WOMAN) IS
LEFT BEHIND" IN THE STATE OF NH
“It’s a disgrace,” said prison reform advocate Wanda Duryea of Farmington. “And this could happen to you or someone you love. People don’t realize this when they are trying to get help.”
IN MORE NH NEWS, IN THE PAST 6 MONTHS ALONE
IN MORE NH NEWS, IN THE PAST 6 MONTHS ALONE
FACT 1. "The homeless people have increased in numbers by 11% just in the year 2017 alone. After decreasing a total of 19% in the previous 24 months, 2015-2016."
FACT 3. "DHHS Reported New Hampshire is experiencing an outbreak of syphilis, as the number of reported cases in New Hampshire for 2017 is about double that of previous years. From January through May of this year, forty-two cases of syphilis, a reportable sexually transmitted disease (STD), were identified. That is an increase compared with the past 5 years, when an average of 20 cases were reported during those months. Between 2012 and 2016, there were on average approximately 80 total cases per year of the disease reported in New Hampshire, with 2016 having the highest number of 104 cases reported for the entire year. The outbreak in New Hampshire is consistent with national numbers"
NH PEOPLE NOW LIVING WITH HIV AS OF 2014
78% ARE MEN22% ARE WOMEN
Estimated Percent of AIDS Diagnoses Within 3 Months of Initial HIV Diagnosis, US v NH 2014
LITTLE TINY
DIAGNOSIS UNITED STATES NEW HAMPSHIRE
HIV 76.4% 77.5%
AIDS 23.6% 22.5%
And STILL increasing
And STILL increasing
FACT 4. "Hillsborough County's top prosecutor has asked for a budget increase of nearly $500,000, money he said is needed to hire more prosecutors, victim-witness advocates and support staff to rescue a "department on the brink of collapse."
"Hillsborough County Attorney Dennis Hogan used the ominous words - seldom seen in the dry world of budget spreadsheets - to highlight the difficulty of retaining staff amid the heavy caseloads of one of the busiest prosecutorial offices in the state.
Hogan, a Republican, wants his budget increased 19 percent, to $5.47 million.
His office - the only one in the state to cover two superior courts - has lost 25 percent of its prosecutors in each of the last two years, he said. A key reason is workload, he said.
Hogan said his office is unable to recruit and train staff quickly enough to keep up with the attrition. As a result, police departments in the county don't get all the attention and training they need, he said.
The Hillsborough County Attorney's office lacks the technology to keep up with the demands of the court system, which compounds staffing issues."
FACT 5. New Hampshire being placed in the top 20 states for most suicide deaths. The Granite State exceeds national rates in almost every age category."
FACT 6. "A medical examiners office is considered deficient if an individual pathologist must perform more than 250 autopsies per year! Last year Dr. Andrew and Dr. Jennie V. Duval, the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner performed 250 each." NH could loose credentials!
SUICIDES NUMBERS: NEW HAMPSHIRE v UNITED STATES
FACT 7. "CONCORD, N.H. (AP) —
An advocacy group estimates drug and alcohol abuse cost
A report released by New Futures shows the growing economic toll of the crisis — up more than $50 million from the two previous years — as well as a growth in the number of people seeking treatment under provisions in former President Barack Obama's health care law. The report also shows that while opioid abuse is increasing, alcohol abuse remains a more significant addiction problem, with more than 110,000 New Hampshire workers experiencing alcohol dependence."
FACT8. "MANCHESTER 2018— The state will pay $6.75 million to settle a lawsuit brough by the grandparents of , Youth and Families, state Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said Thursday. two girls who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their parents while the family was under supervision of the Division of Children. The settlement ends a four-year legal saga in which the grandparents, who have since adopted the girls, fought to sue the state and two non-profit agencies — Easterseals New Hampshire and CASA of New Hampshire — in open court. Their settlements with Easterseals and CASA have been sealed and parties on both sides would not discuss them.“It was a very, very troubling set of facts, as extreme as I have seen in the context of childhood sexual abuse,” said MacDonald after the hearing."
An advocacy group estimates drug and alcohol abuse cost
(Tax Free) New Hampshire $2.36 billion in 2014 in lost
productivity, health care and strains on the
criminal justice system.
criminal justice system.
A report released by New Futures shows the growing economic toll of the crisis — up more than $50 million from the two previous years — as well as a growth in the number of people seeking treatment under provisions in former President Barack Obama's health care law. The report also shows that while opioid abuse is increasing, alcohol abuse remains a more significant addiction problem, with more than 110,000 New Hampshire workers experiencing alcohol dependence."
FACT8. "MANCHESTER 2018— The state will pay $6.75 million to settle a lawsuit brough by the grandparents of , Youth and Families, state Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said Thursday. two girls who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their parents while the family was under supervision of the Division of Children. The settlement ends a four-year legal saga in which the grandparents, who have since adopted the girls, fought to sue the state and two non-profit agencies — Easterseals New Hampshire and CASA of New Hampshire — in open court. Their settlements with Easterseals and CASA have been sealed and parties on both sides would not discuss them.“It was a very, very troubling set of facts, as extreme as I have seen in the context of childhood sexual abuse,” said MacDonald after the hearing."
(That is half of the cost right there for a new Secure Psychiatric Unit for NH. Only If
NH would just have a legal functioning DCYF AND FAMILY COURT SYSTEM!)
FACT 9. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). "From 2005 to 2015 the number of infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in the Granite State increased fivefold, from 52 to 269, according to new research by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. In 2015, newborns diagnosed with NAS remained in the hospital 12 days on average, compared to three days for newborns not born exposed.
FACT 10. Justice Delayed New Hampshire Court System
NH would just have a legal functioning DCYF AND FAMILY COURT SYSTEM!)
FACT 9. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). "From 2005 to 2015 the number of infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in the Granite State increased fivefold, from 52 to 269, according to new research by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. In 2015, newborns diagnosed with NAS remained in the hospital 12 days on average, compared to three days for newborns not born exposed.
FACT 10. Justice Delayed New Hampshire Court System
By Duaglas, Leonard, And Garvey, PC
Several attorneys filed suit against the State recently to try to obtain proper funding for our judicial system. It is broken and I could not sit idly by and let it be gutted by excessive legislative budget cuts so I joined in as counsel.
Certain types of court cases have specific time frames in which to act and those are set by the legislature. For example, domestic violence cases and criminal cases require certain scheduling dates by law. Thus, work on such cases means other cases must be delayed if judge time is lacking due to vacancies. For instance, in 2009, there were 5,300 cases of domestic violence with hearings required between five or thirty days of filing, depending on the request.
Stalking cases were 1,470 in number, with the same time requirements. 9,600 landlord/tenant cases must be heard ten days from service of process. Involuntary emergency admissions to the N.H. Hospital were filed 1,700 times last year and they must be heard within three days of hospitalization.
Families are also heavily affected by the lack of a judge to help decide their disputes. 7,200 juvenile cases, 10,000 new divorce or family petitions and 7,000 closed cases reopened for parenting or lack of child support issues were heard last year alone.
Judges cannot decide cases without someone processing them, scheduling them, getting orders out, and otherwise processing paperwork. Each month thousands of orders have to go to the office of child support enforcement, various criminal law agencies, and to parties involved in marital and civil cases.
In the non-criminal area our State Constitution’s Bill of Rights (Part I, Article 14), says that everyone is entitled to a certain remedy for all injuries they may receive and that they are to obtain it “completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay.”
The purpose of that provision is to make civil remedies readily available and to guard against arbitrary denial of access to the courts. It is an equal protection clause because, whether you are suing someone or being sued, you want to have your case resolved as soon as possible.
Last year there were $3.1 million of cuts out of a judicial branch budget of about $65 million, with another $2.2 million hit in May. Concord District Court, which is a three-judge court, is now operating with one full-time judge. Due to the reduction in personnel a form letter went out this summer canceling all civil trials.
Small claims cases were all cancelled in the Manchester District Court this summer for an indefinite period.
On July 22, Merrimack County Superior Court began closing to the public daily from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. As of June 30, it had nearly 500 case files with pieces of mail that had yet to be docketed in the court record, with some documents dating back to March. Another 150 trial and hearing notices had not been sent out and more than 350 files contained court orders that had not been issued.
And Hillsborough County just announced:
HILLSBOROUGH SUPERIOR COURT CLERKS TO CLOSE OFFICES
TUESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS
Staff shortages prompt move to focus on reduction of case backlog
CONCORD, October 1 – The clerk’s office in Nashua for Hillsborough County Superior Court North and Hillsborough County Superior Court South will close at 1 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday beginning October 5 to allow uninterrupted time for processing cases and related materials.
Both clerk’s offices, which had been closed from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., will reopen at 8 a.m. daily, beginning Oct. 5 with implementation of the new Tuesday/Thursday afternoon closings.
After 1 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, no telephone or counter service will be available to lawyers, litigants or the public in the clerk’s office during those hours; the automated telephone system will be monitored so that emergency requests are addressed promptly. A “drop box” will be set up inside the courthouse at 30 Spring Street in Nashua for filing documents during the hours when the clerk’s office is closed.
As of today, the Merrimack County Superior Court, which had been closed down since last August on weekday afternoons to work on reducing the case backlog, will be open for a full day on Fridays. The clerk’s office in Concord remains closed to lawyers, litigants and the public Monday through Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. to allow for uninterrupted case processing.
Several other court locations statewide, faced with backlogs and staff shortages, also have limited public operating hours to allow uninterrupted time for employees to process cases.
Superior Court Chief Justice Robert J. Lynn said the schedule will be reviewed every 30 days to determine when the clerk’s office can return to routine office hours. Reductions in the court system budget have required administrators to maintain 71 full-time non-judicial vacancies, which means court locations have fewer employees on staff to carry out day to day clerical responsibilities.
These cutbacks affect all citizens who seek justice. I will do all I can to fight for fair funding. If you have a delay horror story, email me at info@nojustice.org
*AND NH'S BIG BONUSES OF THE DAY ARE?
*Tiny little NH holds 4th place in the nation, in a country that's closing in on 1st place in the world, for having the most government and population domains leaked in 2015, on "ASHLEY MADISON, Life Is Short, Have An Affair" website, that was involved in a worldwide breach of information by hackers!"
Stalking cases were 1,470 in number, with the same time requirements. 9,600 landlord/tenant cases must be heard ten days from service of process. Involuntary emergency admissions to the N.H. Hospital were filed 1,700 times last year and they must be heard within three days of hospitalization.
Families are also heavily affected by the lack of a judge to help decide their disputes. 7,200 juvenile cases, 10,000 new divorce or family petitions and 7,000 closed cases reopened for parenting or lack of child support issues were heard last year alone.
Judges cannot decide cases without someone processing them, scheduling them, getting orders out, and otherwise processing paperwork. Each month thousands of orders have to go to the office of child support enforcement, various criminal law agencies, and to parties involved in marital and civil cases.
In the non-criminal area our State Constitution’s Bill of Rights (Part I, Article 14), says that everyone is entitled to a certain remedy for all injuries they may receive and that they are to obtain it “completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay.”
The purpose of that provision is to make civil remedies readily available and to guard against arbitrary denial of access to the courts. It is an equal protection clause because, whether you are suing someone or being sued, you want to have your case resolved as soon as possible.
Last year there were $3.1 million of cuts out of a judicial branch budget of about $65 million, with another $2.2 million hit in May. Concord District Court, which is a three-judge court, is now operating with one full-time judge. Due to the reduction in personnel a form letter went out this summer canceling all civil trials.
Small claims cases were all cancelled in the Manchester District Court this summer for an indefinite period.
On July 22, Merrimack County Superior Court began closing to the public daily from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. As of June 30, it had nearly 500 case files with pieces of mail that had yet to be docketed in the court record, with some documents dating back to March. Another 150 trial and hearing notices had not been sent out and more than 350 files contained court orders that had not been issued.
And Hillsborough County just announced:
HILLSBOROUGH SUPERIOR COURT CLERKS TO CLOSE OFFICES
TUESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS
Staff shortages prompt move to focus on reduction of case backlog
CONCORD, October 1 – The clerk’s office in Nashua for Hillsborough County Superior Court North and Hillsborough County Superior Court South will close at 1 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday beginning October 5 to allow uninterrupted time for processing cases and related materials.
Both clerk’s offices, which had been closed from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., will reopen at 8 a.m. daily, beginning Oct. 5 with implementation of the new Tuesday/Thursday afternoon closings.
After 1 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday, no telephone or counter service will be available to lawyers, litigants or the public in the clerk’s office during those hours; the automated telephone system will be monitored so that emergency requests are addressed promptly. A “drop box” will be set up inside the courthouse at 30 Spring Street in Nashua for filing documents during the hours when the clerk’s office is closed.
As of today, the Merrimack County Superior Court, which had been closed down since last August on weekday afternoons to work on reducing the case backlog, will be open for a full day on Fridays. The clerk’s office in Concord remains closed to lawyers, litigants and the public Monday through Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. to allow for uninterrupted case processing.
Several other court locations statewide, faced with backlogs and staff shortages, also have limited public operating hours to allow uninterrupted time for employees to process cases.
Superior Court Chief Justice Robert J. Lynn said the schedule will be reviewed every 30 days to determine when the clerk’s office can return to routine office hours. Reductions in the court system budget have required administrators to maintain 71 full-time non-judicial vacancies, which means court locations have fewer employees on staff to carry out day to day clerical responsibilities.
These cutbacks affect all citizens who seek justice. I will do all I can to fight for fair funding. If you have a delay horror story, email me at info@nojustice.org
*AND NH'S BIG BONUSES OF THE DAY ARE?
*Tiny little NH holds 4th place in the nation, in a country that's closing in on 1st place in the world, for having the most government and population domains leaked in 2015, on "ASHLEY MADISON, Life Is Short, Have An Affair" website, that was involved in a worldwide breach of information by hackers!"
YOU CAN NOW CHECK AND SEE IF YOUR SIGNIFICANT
OTHER WAS ON THAT LIST NOW TOO!
NH FAMILY COURT IS BECOMING MUCH MORE BUSIER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN BEFORE NOW!
NH GOVERNMENT CLEARLY HAS A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO TO ALL TAXPAYERS!
NH GOVERNMENT CLEARLY HAS A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO TO ALL TAXPAYERS!
