All CRIMINAL NH JUDGES ARE ABOVE THE LAW AND NEVER WENT BEFORE A COURT OF LAW WITH TAXPAYERS AS JURORS!

NH Judge Paul Moore making $162,200 per year off of taxpayers while destroying thousands of families for decades, walks free! 

FRAUD COULD OF COST TAXPAYERS
$1 MILLION+
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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."

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Ex-Nashua Judge Paul Moore Pleads Guilty, Avoids Jail; fraud Could have Cost Taxpayers 1 million Plus

By Mark Hayward

Union Leader
MAY 3, 2018

Paul Moore, seated in center at hearing

CONCORD — Placed on leave over concerns he submitted fake evaluations of his own performance, Circuit Court Judge Paul Moore told another lie — this one that chronic pain, anxiety, depression and traumatic stress prevented him from being a judge and he should start receiving a disability pension, a prosecutor disclosed Wednesday.Moore appeared in Merrimack County Superior Court on Wednesday and admitted to the fraud. It was yet another blow to a popular Nashua judge who was a former U.S. Army Ranger and founded MooreMart, a nonprofit organization that has shipped more than 100,000 care packages to troops deployed overseas.

Moore had already resigned his judgeship, which he gave up after authorities became suspicious of perfect scores on job evaluations supposedly submitted by lawyers and the public last summer. In the weeks ahead, Moore is likely to be disbarred.

On Wednesday, Moore was fined $4,000, must repay $3,900 to the Judicial Retirement System and received a suspended jail sentence.“He is no longer a judge. He no longer will receive retirement benefits. He walks out of this courtroom not a judge, but a felon,” said Associate Attorney General Jane Young.

“Today, the court sentenced a fundamentally good man who has done amazing things for the state. Paul Moore made mistakes and he came to court today to accept responsibility for those mistakes,” said his lawyer, former attorney general Michael Delaney.

During the court hearing, Moore sat at the defense table and kept his chin high as Young laid out a case against him.

She cast doubts on evaluations submitted on his behalf in 2008, 2011 and 2014. The return rates were far higher than those of other judges, and the wording and frequent exclamation points were similar to his writing style, she said.

Moore also submitted the results of the 2017 evaluation in an application to be considered for a Supreme Court appointment.

When he was confronted with the evaluations and suspended from his job, Moore blamed his chronic pain, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He told officials that when he filled out computer evaluations and gave himself high marks, his panic attacks subsided.

Young said Moore will not face any criminal charges as a result of the bogus evaluations submissions. He pleaded guilty to attempting to secure a disability pension. At 70 percent of his $162,200 salary, he would have received an annual payment of $113,400 in taxpayer dollars in retirement. That would end up being more than $1 million over the course of his lifetime, Young said.Moore cited the same physical and mental illnesses when he applied for disability, something that Young said led to the charge and guilty plea.“The state’s position at trial would have been no, he did not (suffer the ailments),” Young told reporters.

Delaney would not entertain questions from reporters. Moore used forearm crutches when he entered the courtroom, which he wielded deftly upon his departure, easily matching the stride of his lawyers.Moore’s application for disability benefits — made in January — claimed his health had been deteriorating for 15 months, Young said. But just nine months earlier, he had applied for consideration as a Supreme Court judge and made no mention of poor health.“It is essential that people who serve as judges can be trusted,” said Superior Court Judge John Kissinger, who signed off on the plea bargain. Most of his words to Moore were encouraging.

“Ultimately,” Kissinger said, “we’re not defined by the worst things we do, but all the things we do.”mhayward@unionleader.com
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NOTE: Judge John Broderick was aquitted October 11, 2000

                              NH JUDGE IMPEACHED                                                  

By ABC NEWS
The New Hampshire House today impeached state Supreme Court Justice David Brock for his alleged interference in a 1987 divorce case and voted to send his case to the Senate for a trial.

A Senate trial could result in Brock’s removal from the bench. The last time a New Hampshire Supreme Court justice was impeached was in 1790 when Woodbury Langdon was punished for poor attendance. Langdon resigned before his Senate trial. The final vote to impeach came after the House had given preliminary approval to three articles of impeachment, all by approximate 2-to-1 margins. 

During today’s seven-hour debate, GOP Rep. Albert Hamel said the House could restore the high court’s moral authority by voting for impeachment. “I hope that we have equal fortitude, guts, courage, to do what we have to do in this situation,” he said.

An Improper Phone Call

Brock is accused of making an improper call to a lower-court judge in 1987 about a politically connected lawsuit. He is also accused of lying under oath and soliciting comments from a fellow justice about that judge’s own divorce case and lying under oath during the investigation.  

“We are not asking you to find anyone guilty here. This is not a trial,” House Judiciary Chairman Henry Mock said in urging a “yes” vote.

Intentional Wrongdoing

The first article of impeachment alleged that Brock called the lower court judge to remind him that state Sen. Edward C. Dupont could help the court pass legislation, including a pay raise. Brock has denied making the call; the article faults him both for making it and for not telling his colleagues about it.

The other articles claimed:

Brock solicited comments in February from then-Justice Stephen Thayer about matters involving Thayer’s divorce case. Thayer resigned to avoid possible criminal prosecution.

Brock perjured himself four times before the committee. Critics contend this is the weakest article.

Brock said Monday he would consider resigning if he could do so with dignity, but only if the House doesn’t adopt the article accusing him of lying.

New London Republican Alf Jacobson, a Judiciary Committee member, is proposing a fourth impeachment article that Brock let disqualified justices take part in case deliberations. Opponents said Brock should not be punished for continuing a policy he did not create.

Retirement and Benefits

Lawmakers also must decide whether to give Brock full retirement benefits if he resigns. The Senate and governor would have to approve.

In public testimony last month, Brock apologized for his poor judgment, but said he meant no harm.

The House began investigating after Attorney General Philip McLaughlin accused Thayer of trying to influence his divorce.

During a meeting of the justices, Brock announced he was appointing two judges to a panel to hear Judith Thayer’s appeal. Believing Brock wanted his opinion, Thayer delivered a tirade against one of the judges.

McLaughlin said the incident was an outgrowth of the court’s routine practice of letting justices take part in discussions of cases from which they were disqualified.

Justices Sherman Horton and John Broderick, whom the committee voted to neither impeach nor reprimand, were accused of not immediately blowing the whistle on Thayer.

The committee said it was not pleased with the pair, but said months of publicity had damaged their reputations enough. Lawmakers said they trusted Broderick to work to reform the court, and noted that Horton is nearing mandatory retirement at age 70.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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"2000: New Hampshire Impeachment Proceedings Against Supreme Court Justices

Associate Justice W. Stephen Thayer, III

● Justice Thayer resigned before proceedings began.

Justice John T. Broderick, Jr.

● The House investigated but rejected articles of impeachment against
Justice Broderick.

Justice Sherman D. Horton, Jr.

● The House investigated but rejected articles of impeachment against
Justice Horton.

Chief Justice David A. Brock

● The House approved four articles of impeachment against chief Justice Brock: (1) overseeing a practice that allowed recused and disqualified justices to receive draft opinions, attend conferences on the cases, and comment and influence rulings; (2) discussing with Justice Thayer who would substitute on the appeal in Thayer's divorce case; (3) phoning a lower court judge to check the status of a case involving a company owned by the Senate majority leader and not informing his colleagues of it when the case came to the Supreme Court; and (4) lying to the House Judiciary Committee under oath when denying the call.
● The Senate did not convict "

NH TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING FINANCIALLY, MENTALLY, AND PHYSICALLY FOR FAMILY COURT'S CONTINUED SUPPORT OF CHILD ABUSE!

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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."

___________________________________________________STATE PAYS ABUSED GIRLS, ADOPTIVE PARENTS 6.75 MILLION TO SETTLE SUIT INVOLVING DCYF

BY Mark Hayward

Union Leader

MANCHESTER — The state will pay $6.75 million to settle a lawsuit brought 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.

MacDonald made a rare court appearance in Hillsborough Counth Superior Court-North to settle lingering issues over the settlement.

Once Superior Court Judge Gillian Abramson approves it, the state will immediately release the money, MacDonald said.

The money will come out of the state general fund and does not need Executive Council approval, he said.

Abramson did not issue a ruling from the bench Thursday morning but promised to do so soon.

The court hearing featured teams of lawyers for the grandparents, the state and the two agencies. It also was the first time that the grandparents — identified as T.C. and D.C. — appeared at a hearing.

They are identified by their initials to guard the privacy of the victims.The girls, now 8 and 5 years old, are “really not doing well,” said the grandfather, T.C. They attend a public school, but both are in counseling and will need out-of-state treament once the settlement is approved, he said.

The younger was under 2 years old at the time of the abuse and is doing better than her sister.

“The oldest is the one that remembers everything. She’s the one who (disclosed the abuse). She’s a mess. She needs serious counseling and we can’t get it until this is settled,” he said.

Under terms of the settlement, each child will receive $3.125 million from the state and the adoptive parents will receive $500,000.

The attorney who brought the case, Rus Rilee, said that trusts have been established for the girls, and the adoptive parents expect they will be set for the rest of their life financially and have money to bequeath to children.

From the start of the ordeal, T.C. and D.C. wanted the case brought to highlight DCYF accountability, Rilee said. Because of court rulings in the case, others will be able to file court cases in public to challenge missteps by DCYF, and that will make case workers second guess their decisions, he said.

“I hope the system’s gotten better. I hope we made some changes,” he said.

Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards said no one at DCYF lost their job because of what happened to the girls.“It was the parents that abused these children,” Edwards said. “They had rights under court orders to be able to proceed with unsupervised or partially supervised visits, and those rights were met by DCYF.”

When a supervisor was not on-site, the children were repeatedly assaulted, she said.

The issue during a court hearing was attorney fees. Rilee and his team want to exceed a 25 percent limit spelled out in state law and court rules for settlements involving children.

D.C. and T.C. both said they agreed to a higher portion — the percentage was not disclosed — and urged MacDonald to stop fighting it.

“I would love to have you guys come to my home and see how my 8-year-old acts. Just come,” T.C. said.

MacDonald said state law requires him to challenge the higher percentage.

mhayward@unionleader.com
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N.H. Judge Rules Against DCYF

By Allie Morris
Concord Monitor
April 2017

A New Hampshire Superior Court judge has sided with a family suing the state child protection agency in a ruling that could pave the way to making confidential abuse and neglect records open to the public.

“The court finds defendants’ interests in maintaining confidentiality in this case is motivated purely by their own self-interest in minimizing public exposure of their alleged errors,” Judge Gillian Abramson wrote in an order released on Thursday.

The decision could shine a rare light on the inner workings of an agency that has been under scrutiny since two toddlers under its watch were killed. The lawsuit accuses Easter Seals and the Division for Children, Youth, and Families of failing to protect two young girls from “horrific” sexual abuse by their biological parents, despite repeated warning signs.

The court order allows the girls’ grandparents, now their adoptive parents, to waive confidentiality of state records related to the girls. Their attorney, Rus Rilee, said the next step is to file that motion.
Under state child protection laws, records from abuse and neglect investigations and proceedings must be kept in “books and files separate from all other court records” and must be withheld from “public inspection.” They are only accessible to a child’s grandparents or guardians with approval.  Rilee argued the laws shield the public from ever learning about problems within DCYF.

He said children’s identities can be protected even if the state’s documents are made public. While state attorneys argued the laws are needed to protect sensitive information about children, parents and foster families, Abramson came down in favor of disclosure.

“The court finds the children in this case — as well as all children in this State who may experience the misfortune of being involved in abuse and neglect proceedings — have a strong and legitimate interest in ensuring the proper functioning and public accountability of the entities responsible for their care,” Abramson wrote.

The 16-page document also added Court Appointed Special Advocates, known as CASA, as a defendant in the suit and denied the state’s request to dismiss the case. Rilee, who represents a number of families who plan to sue DCYF, including those of Sadence Willott and Brielle Gage — the two toddlers who died while under state watch — praised the ruling.

Every case we bring forward, on behalf of Sadee, Brielle, those cases are going to be litigated openly and publicly and the records associated with those cases are going to be eventually open for public consumption,” he said.

A spokeswoman for CASA said in a statement the ruling doesn’t mean the organization is liable. “CASA of New Hampshire intends to vigorously contest the plaintiffs’ allegations based on both the facts of the case and the state’s child protection laws,” Carolyn Cote said in a statement.

Senior Assistant Attorney General Lisa English said the state is still reviewing the recent order. We “will make a decision as to what actions we may take in the next several days,” she said.

In the lawsuit, filed in Hillsborough County Superior Court, the grandparents are seeking monetary damages and demanding a jury trial on several grounds. The family accuses DCYF, Easter Seals and CASA of negligence, negligent training and supervision of its employees, and breach of fiduciary duty.

The lawsuit alleges the groups disregarded concerns from the family and police about possible sexual abuse, which turned out to be founded. The girls’ mother and father pleaded guilty in 2014 to felonious sexual assault charges and to manufacturing child pornography. Each was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

The girls were 4 and 18 months old, respectively, at the time of the abuse detailed in the suit. It alleges the parents sexually abused their daughters during supervised and unsupervised visits in 2013, and that the mother filmed 14 of the incidents. Some of the abuse occurred during “bath time” with the parents, while an Easter Seals caseworker was in another room, according to the lawsuit.

Police recovered flash drives from the parents’ home that included those videos. In one, a child’s cry is muffled because her mouth is covered with duct tape.

The suit alleges DCYF allowed the parents to have unsupervised visits with their daughters, even after the Claremont Police Department began investigating reports months earlier that the couple had molested a young boy and girl at a homeless shelter where they were staying. Police contacted DCYF several weeks later about the allegations, but officials took no steps to follow up, the lawsuit claims.

“The defendants later justified their decision to allow unsupervised time with the biological parents, with DCYF telling both (the plaintiffs) and the investigating police officer that they had to give these parents ‘the opportunity to fail,’ ” the lawsuit says.
Rilee also is representing the paternal father of Brielle Gage, a 3-year-old Nashua girl killed by her mother in 2014. The father, William Boucher, has said he plans to sue DCYF over its handling of his daughter’s case. He wants the case heard in open court to try and bring change to the system.

NH JUDGE ALBEE IS NOT ALONE!  NH FAMILY COURT JUDGE SUSAN CARBON OPENLY SUPPORTS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, THEN PASSES THE BUCK, BLAMES LEGISLATORS AND THE LAWS FOR DOING SO!
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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."

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Mark Hayward's A City Matters: A Woman Feels Stuck In The Family Court System

By Mark Hayward

South Manchester resident Tamara Duhaime knows first hand about domestic violence and its aftermath in the city of Manchester.

Three years ago, she suffered a broken nose when the father of her fourth child — William Hodgkins, now 60 — backhanded her as they argued while he drove her to pick up her paycheck.

The blow and subsequent arrest introduced her to a court system that, nearly three years after the assault, continues to grapple with the assault and its aftermath.

It is a system that keeps abuser and victim — father and mother — in a slow-burning dispute, long after a judge rules guilty and bruises have healed.

It is a system that decides simple questions of guilt or innocence rather quickly, but bogs down on the more complex, more subjective issues of child custody, financial support and parenting.

“That is the No. 1 problem we hear from our crisis centers and victims,” said Amanda Grady Sexton, the public affairs director of New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. “We see batterers that are absolutely using the system to continue the abuse,” Sexton said. One of their favorite moves: to gain 50-50 custody so they don’t have to pay child support, she said. Sexton said family court is geared toward the 90 percent of cases where parents amicably break up and agree on custody and other parenting decisions. But for the other 10 percent — and that’s often when domestic assault is a factor — it’s non-stop motions, counseling sessions and court hearings.Duhaime’s ordeal started with the assault in late September 2014. Two months later, Hodgkins was found guilty and given a suspended jail sentence.

“He basically walked away. He got a slap on the wrist,” said Duhaime, who is 49.

Then the family case started.

Hodgkins pays $800 a month on a pretty regular basis, according to court records. An Air Force veteran, he has been deemed completely disabled, and receives $4,500 a month in veteran benefits and Social Security disability, according to his financial statements filed with family court.

Duhaime earns about $25,600 annually as a licensed nursing assistant at Hillsborough County nursing home. She lives in an apartment with her two children in south Manchester. She gets no food stamps or welfare, she said.

The big issue is child custody.

The judge in the case said Hodgkins deserves a chance to develop a relationship with his son, now 12. But Duhaime won’t let that happen, according to Hodgkins’ lawyer.

“She will not follow a court order to save her life,” said Manchester lawyer Jaye Rancourt. Hodgkins has participated in counseling, anger management and batterers evaluation, she said. Nothing points to a propensity for violence.

“All he wants to do is see his son. That’s the only thing he wants. It’s heartbreaking,” Rancourt said.

Rancourt works for free, part of a program that provides legal help to veterans. She is Hodgkins’ third lawyer after two previous lawyers — Mark Howard and David Ruoff — had to drop out of his case to become judges.

Duhaime has no lawyer; New Hampshire Legal Assistance said it couldn’t take her case, she said.So she goes it on her own. Duhaime said her son doesn’t want to see Hodgkins. She has encouraged him to do so, she said, but he is adamant. She can understand.

“Nobody can guarantee to me his safety 100 percent,” Duhaime said. (Duhaime said Hodgkins was in the Air Force for a short time and never saw combat; Rancourt said she’s unsure of Hodgkins’ military record.)

The stalemate goes on. Last month, Judge Susan Carbon ordered Duhaime to pay $200 a month for a counselor to determine if Duhaime is unfairly influencing the boy against Hodgkins. Hodgkins is paying a retainer for the counselor, and Duhaime has to pay him back, which makes her indebted to her one-time assailant, she complained.
And so it goes, circling nonstop like a whirlpool of water in a drain. How to stop it up?

Rancourt said judges know when a batterer is using the system and put a stop to it.

Sexton said the problem can’t be fixed by passing a law. She said judges, mediators and guardians have to be trained to understand domestic violence. And she’d like to see a special family court that deals with domestic violence.

“Look at the Joshua Savyon case,” Sexton said, referring to the 2013 murder-suicide involving a father and his 9-year-old son during a supervised visitation. “Talk about red flags. He did what he told everybody he would do.”

Duhaime said she becomes anxious when she appears in court. She complains that the judge doesn’t listen to her. The judge, Carbon, headed up the U.S. Office on Violence Against Women in the Obama administration.

In her court orders, Carbon acknowledges Duhaime’s concerns in writing. But the judge stresses that the state Legislature presumes that contact with both mother and father is in the best interest of a child.

For a non-lawyer, Duhaime seems to be pretty good at forestalling a possible reunification between father and son.

But why shouldn’t she? After all, judges want her to put their faith in the system. The same system that let a guy walk free after he broke her nose.“You feel like you’re going to reach a safe haven when you reach our court system,” Duhaime said, “and then you realize that’s not the case.”

Mark Hayward’s City Matters appears Saturdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader and UnionLeader.com. He can be reached at mhayward@unionleader.com.

THE RESULTS ARE IN.
NEW HAMPSHIRE AIDS AND HIV HAVE EXCEEDED THE NATIONAL PERCENT RATE! 
PAY ATTENTION, THEN READ IT AND WEEP!!!!!!!!!

Reported as of April 18, 2018

NH PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN 2014

78% ARE MEN

      22% ARE WOMEN

Estimated Percent of AIDS Diagnoses Within 3 Months of Initial HIV Diagnosis, US  v  NH  2014

DIAGNOSIS               UNITED STATES    NEW HAMPSHIRE

HIV                                76.4%                          77.5%

AIDS                              23.6%                          22.5%

NH HIV Federal Funding/ Programs, Federal HIV/AIDS Grant Funding, FY 2015

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: $835,985

• Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program: $2,281,287

• Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration: $1,599,843

• Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS: $734,770

Total Funding: $5,451,885

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New Hampshire is experiencing an outbreak of gonorrhea. (MGN)

by WGME

CONCORD, NH (WGME) – New Hampshire is experiencing an outbreak of gonorrhea.

According to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, gonorrhea is a reportable sexually transmitted disease (STD), and the number of cases in New Hampshire has been increasing over the last year.

Between 2007 and 2013 there were on average approximately 130 cases per year of gonorrhea reported in New Hampshire.

NH DHHS says it received 465 reports of cases of gonorrhea contracted in 2016, which represents a more than 250% increase over the previous baseline.

DOCTORS MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY CONTROLLING NH GONORRHEA OUT BREAK IN 2016
By ContagionLIVE
Infectious disease Today

Given that women tend to experience few or no symptoms when infected, the possibility of those infections spreading unchecked over the course of 2016 coupled with rising drug resistance and foundering public health services, could have placed the state in a susceptible position for the infection’s spread in the following year.

As evidence of an outbreak grew, the DPHS warned that more than one in every four (28%) gonorrhea cases reported were not treated correctly with a dual therapy of ceftriaxone and azithromycin to counter potentially drug-resistant strains. They also noted that infections were largely concentrated in four NH counties: Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford, and Hillsborough. “Those most impacted by gonorrhea have been males under 40 years of age, and those residing in Hillsborough County,” a NHDPHS spokesperson said in a public health alert.

Brian Katowitz, a CDC spokesman for the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB prevention, told Contagion^®, “It is important to note that while rates of gonorrhea have increased sharply in recent years, the current antibiotic regimen is still effective.” However, he went on to say, “If resistance continues to increase and spread, current treatment will ultimately fail.” This failure, Katowitz warned, would “cripple our ability to control the spread of gonorrhea.” He emphasized that medical practitioners must adhere to CDC treatment guidelines that specify the dual ceftriaxone/azithromycin treatments to cure the infection and prevent transmission, and that physicians who suspect treatment failure should report it immediately to their local health department.

NEW HAMPSHIRE IS EXPERIENCING AN OUTBRAK OF SYPHILIS IN 2017

Concord, NH – 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 trends and is being seen mainly in men under age 40 and in men who have sex with men (MSM). Approximately 60% of cases have been in Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties.

"STD's CAN IMPLICATE HIV OR EVEN LEAD TO CANCER!"

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NH, STILL IGNORES AND CLAIMS ADULTERY IS JUST A "NO FAULT DIVORCE" AND JUST A LITTLE "IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES" IN A MARRIAGE.  SO JUST GET OVER IT PEOPLE, BECUASE EVERYONE ELSE IS JUST DOING IT! 

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF NOW NH.  IS NH THE ONE STATE THAT WILL REMAIN IN CONTINUAL SILENT STATE OF EMERGENCY!?! IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!?!?!?!?!?!

THIS COULD BE YOUR CHILD NEXT!

NH POPULATION STILL WAITING

FOR THE STATE TO OBEY BOTH NH's CONSTITUTION AND ALL STATE LAWS!

PLEASE HELP STOP NH GOVERNMENT FROM KIDNAPPING PEOPLE (FOR 30 YEARS).  WHO WERE "CIVILLY COMMITTED" INTO HOSPITALS WITH MENTAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS, THEN KIDNAPPED AND PLACED IN PRISON, WEARING JAILHOUSE CLOTHING, IN LOCKDOWN FOR 23 HOURS A DAY. THEY ARE EVEN SHACKLED AND TASERED  LIKE CRIMINALS.

"She feared for her son’s life because a middle-aged man in a cell near Corey’s had died and no one would say what had happened."

"He was singled out as an example patients who are admitted to New Hampshire Hospital for psychiatric treatment but are then transferred to the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the prison without ever having a criminal proceeding."

"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."

"Andrew Butler, 21, was civilly committed (2 weeks ago) to the New Hampshire Hospital, the state’s psychiatric hospital. But civilly committed patients can be transferred to the NH prison unit if they are considered a danger to themselves or others and can’t safely be housed at the hospital."

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.”

“I can only go visit him one day a week,” Douglas Butler said. “He can’t phone me because the phones don’t work. And I can’t call him. It’s an awful situation.”

“He is locked down 23 hours a day. He has been tasered. The treatment he has received is cruel and unusual punishment without having been convicted of a crime and with no pending criminal process”

Photo by Nancy West: People are dying in here unnecessarily 

FORCING CIVILLY PATIENTS INTO "TELEPHONE BOOTH SIZE CAGES" FOR THERAPY WITH ACTUAL CRIMINALS CHARGED WITH SEX CRIMES, ASSUALT AND WORSE, ACTUAL SERIOUS CRIMES, SOME ARE REAL PSYCHOTIC CRIMINALS CHARGED AND SENTENCED THAT ARE EVEN TO UNFIT TO EVEN STAND TRIAL

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NH Disability Rights Center Is Monitoring

Complaints Against Secure Psychiatric Unit

By Nancy West

March 28, 2018

CONCORD – The Disability Rights Center is monitoring the rights and safety of individuals with mental illness who are locked up at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men, according to DRC staff attorney Andrew Milne.

“We monitor throughout the state,” Milne said, “but certainly the Secure Psychiatric Unit has come up a number of times in complaints about conditions there.”

The monitoring could result in a decision to conduct an investigation, depending on the availability of resources, Milne said.

There are a variety of patients at the Secure Psychiatric Unit who have not been convicted of and sometimes have not been charged with a criminal offense. They are housed with convicted criminals who have mental illness.

“We do have concerns about the appropriateness of that setting for individuals with mental illness – in particular individuals who have not been convicted of any crime who are nevertheless placed there in a prison setting under the Department of Corrections’ control, which we question the therapeutic value of and the effectiveness of the mental health treatment,” Milne said.

"He singled out as an example patients who are admitted to New Hampshire Hospital for psychiatric treatment but are then transferred to the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the prison without ever having a criminal proceeding."

The Department of Corrections declined to comment.

The process of incarcerating mentally ill patients who haven’t been convicted of a crime in New Hampshire has been controversial since it started decades ago. The most recent attempts by state Rep. Renny Cushing, D-Hampton, and Advocates for Ethical Mental Health Treatment to halt the practice have failed.

September 2017
By Nancy West

Corey Peterson is pictured on his 24th birthday at Secure

Psychiatric Unit State prison in Concord, NH

Raza’s son, Corey Peterson, was civilly committed to the New Hampshire Hospital a little over two years ago, then transferred to SPU even though he hadn’t committed a crime.

While on a 24-hour watch, Corey pulled out all of his fingernails and toenails. “He said he needed to make them even,” Raza said.

At SPU, Raza and other family members were forced to undergo background checks and were held to the same rules as anyone visiting the state prison, even though the Department of Corrections insists that SPU is a hospital, not a prison. Critics are quick to point out, however, that SPU lacks hospital accreditation or outside professional oversight.

During much of Corey’s stay at SPU, Raza was banned from family meetings about his treatment. She believes it was because she questioned and second-guessed the medical staff relative to Corey’s medication and treatment.

For the last few months that he was at SPU, Raza was banned from visiting Corey altogether because of an incident that occurred on his 24th birthday.

Raza took balloons into a non-contact visit at SPU and asked Corey to pretend to hold them by pressing his hand against the glass partition while he spoke to her on the prison phone. Raza took pictures on her cell phone and sent them to family members.

“I really thought it might be his last birthday,” Raza said, so she risked bringing in her cell phone to get photos knowing it could be considered prison contraband.

She feared for her son’s life because a middle-aged man in a cell near Corey’s had died and no one would say what had happened. A corrections officer seized her phone that day, and she has been afraid to retrieve it because she was threatened with arrest.

Corey languished for most of two years at SPU, Raza said, but that changed after news reports were published locally detailing her criticism of SPU and the balloon incident. A VICE TV reporter showing up at SPU helped dramatically, too, she said, even though that report hasn’t yet aired.

Suddenly, Corey started receiving daily psychiatric treatment and became well enough to be returned to the New Hampshire Hospital, Raza said. He has since been released to a halfway house and is hoping to attend college, although Raza said she is still not satisfied with his care.

Death probes

Philip Boruck, 34, NHID# 42416,was in the

 Department's Resident Treatment Unit

In a separate matter, the Disability Rights Center filed a federal lawsuit last month seeking access to the death investigation of Phillip Borcuk, 34, who died while being held at the Residential Treatment Unit, which is upstairs from the Secure Psychiatric Unit, at the State Prison for Men.

Milne said the Department of Corrections has turned over some, but not all records of Borcuk’s death investigation and the federal court case continues.

The Residential Treatment Unit is described as a specialized unit for inmates with mental illness who are unable to function in the general inmate population.

In  news release last month, the DRC cited news reports that said Borcuk was mentally ill and died Dec. 6, 2017 alone in his cell due to self-injurious behavior at the State Prison for Men in Concord.

Borcuk was admitted from Sullivan County Superior Court into the Department of Correction custody in 2012 for charges of operating after being certified as a Habitual Offender, Theft by Unauthorized Taking and Assault by Prisoner.  His parole eligibility date was Dec. 5, 2018 with a maximum release date of Dec. 5, 2019.

Disability Rights Center is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating barriers for people with disabilities in New Hampshire. In the Borcuk lawsuit, the DRC sought an injunction against the department’s interference with a federally authorized investigation in violation of the Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act.

The PAIMI Act authorizes DRC to investigate suspected abuse and neglect of individuals with mental illness and obligates facilities such as prisons to cooperate by promptly producing requested records.

A separate death

Charles Mealer died in NH SPU

in 2015

The estate of Charles Mealer, who died unexpectedly at age 47 at the Secure Psychiatric Unit on June 25, 2015, is suing the Department of Corrections.

The lawsuit claims Mealer’s death was caused by “acute amitriptyline intoxication,” a drug he was being prescribed at the time.

Mealer, who had been transferred in and out of the Secure Psychiatric Unit several times since he was sentenced to state prison in 2011 on two counts of felonious sexual assault, had a long psychiatric history which included suicidal ideation and several suicide attempts, according to the lawsuit filed by Manchester attorney Larry Vogelman.

May 2, 2018
By Nancy West

Andrew and his father Douglas Butler

After InDepthNH.org published a story Friday about Andrew’s situation, more than 600 people signed a petition to get him released from the Secure Psychiatric Unit. A “Free Andrew Butler” page set up on You Caring by one of his friends quickly raised more than $800.

Members of the Hollis/Brookline Community Facebook page pledged all kinds of support, including promises to contact Gov. Chris Sununu, media outlets  and various lawmakers.

John Porter, whose son Evan is close friends with Andrew, says he isn’t exactly sure what is happening with Andrew,  but he has pledged his full support for the family –  have dozens of other members of the Hollis community.

“I know him well. I love Andrew,” said Porter, whose son Evan is coming home from college in a couple of weeks, and  is also eager to help, Porter said.

Porter learned of the situation in a story about a writ of habeas corpus Andrew’s lawyer filed in federal court last week seeking his release from prison to a mental health treatment facility.

Andrew’s attorney, Sandra Bloomenthal, wrote: “He is held as a mental health patient without being in an accredited hospital, denied contact visits with his father, denied contact visits with his attorney, forced to wear prison clothing.

“He is locked down 23 hours a day. He has been tasered. The treatment he has received is cruel and unusual punishment without having been convicted of a crime and with no pending criminal process,” Bloomenthal wrote.

Department of Corrections spokesman Jeff Lyons said he couldn’t confirm that Andrew is being held at the Secure Psychiatric Unit because of confidentiality rules.

Lyons couldn’t comment on the writ filed in federal court and Assistant Attorney General Rebecca Ross said she would find out who in the office is handling the case, although the office may not have been served the writ as yet.Andrew’s father, Douglas Butler, said his son is unaware of the outpouring of support from his hometown.

“I can only go visit him one day a week,” Butler said. “He can’t phone me because the phones don’t work. And I can’t call him. It’s an awful situation.”

Andrew was civilly committed to the New Hampshire Hospital, the state’s psychiatric hospital. But civilly committed patients can be transferred to the prison unit if they are considered a danger to themselves or others and can’t safely be housed at the hospital.“When he was in New Hampshire Hospital, I could go up and we could eat pizza together any time, but in prison all that is gone. It is a prison, that’s what it is,” Butler said.

Butler has contacted state Rep. Renny Cushing, D-Hampton seeking help. Cushing has been fighting to stop the practice of incarcerating people in the Secure Psychiatric Unit who haven’t committed a crime with convicted criminals who are mentally ill.

Cushing’s most recent legislation, House Bill 1565, will be voted on Wednesday in the state Senate. Cushing said the bill has been gutted. Instead of requiring the Secure Psychiatric Unit be accredited by the Joint Commission as a psychiatric hospital, the bill would require accreditation from the National Commission on Corrections Health Care as a behavioral health facility.