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Grassroots in Corrections

A Mental Health Advocacy

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Grassroots in Corrections

By: Carl Toersbijns
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 In this book, veteran prison administrator Carl ToersBijns opens the gates to one of the most overlooked human rights struggles in America: the treatment of severely mentally ill (SMI) inmates within our jails and prisons. Drawing from 25 years of experience inside maximum security facilities—including Arizona’s SMU II (Browning Unit) and the Santa Fe Penitentiary—ToersBijns delivers a sobering, urgent, and deeply moral call to reform.
This is not a policy manual. It is not a clinical guide.
It is a witness.
Through powerful chapters shaped by firsthand insight, institutional truth, and unwavering advocacy, ToersBijns confronts the broken culture of punitive segregation, the misuse of classification systems, the failures of compliance monitoring, and the silencing of staff who dare to care. Yet above all, he centers one enduring principle: mercy is not weakness, it is strength.
This book offers no photographs, no dramatization, and no sentimentality. Instead, it offers clarity, conviction, and a path forward for those working behind the wire who still believe that justice includes treatment—and that leadership includes humanity.
A must-read for correctional professionals, policymakers, reform advocates, and anyone who believes that the moral measure of a system is how it treats its most vulnerable.
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