It just makes me laugh to myself how he thinks he can try and get away with being “mentally ill”
I literally work with prisoners on my wing who claim to be “mentally unwell” and have been assessed multiple times and haven’t been diagnosed with anything because they’re acting on it as they think going to hospital will help their sentence. We have a guy who hasn’t showered in months, won’t leave his cell, does weird things like lays pumpkin seeds around his toilet and sits there naked speaking to them, you’ll try and talk to him and he’ll start barking in your face or hysterically laughing, yet when he’s been assessed (quite a few times) hes actually playing on it and tying to make people think he’s unwell, when in actual fact he just doesn’t want to be in prison. The people who do the assessments aren’t stupid Stephen, they will see straight through you.
ETA: also with the trying to take his own life, does he realise how many prisoners try to do that. Or self harm on a daily? We have procedures in place for self harm & all he’ll get out of saying he’s feeling suicidal or wanting to self harm is be put on an ACCT document & be checked on upto 5 x per hour daily until the documents closed.
he really infuriates me. Kinda wish I worked in a prison that he’s likely to be sent to so I can give him a piece of my mind and tbh to see how he acts when that cell door closes. I can just imagine he’s going to be an entitled twat pressing his cell bell constantly thinking it’s like his own personal call bell. He will get what’s coming to him in prison & ngl I hope he spends his entire time on basic
