It was supposed to be "easy time."
Back in 1978, Margaret was a teenaged troublemaker living in southwestern Ontario who had been charged with general mischief and stealing a car. After her arrest, her lawyer laid out her options.
"'You can go to jail for two years — or do easy time at the psychiatric hospital in St. Thomas,' which was closer to my family," she said.
Margaret picked the "easy time."
And so began the nine months she remembers as the hardest of her life. She found herself locked up with women who were mentally ill, treated not by therapists but by men who were mentally ill and who'd been convicted of rape. They are painful memories she had locked away until contacted recently by CBC's The Fifth Estate. (more...)
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