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50 Years in the System

01 January 1991

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50 Years in the System
libdoc November=1993

Author: Laing, jimmy and McQuarrie, Dermot
Publisher: Corgi, 1992
Keywords: Mental Health

Contents:
From the age of nine Jimmy Laing lived under lock and key. First at
the Baldovan mental institution, and latterly at Carstairs State
Hospital, the Scottish equivalent of Broadmoor. He was never tried or
sentenced, for he had committed no crime. He was quite simply the
victim of the harsh system of dealing with 'problem' children in the
1930s. yet once in that system, he was certified insane and remained
its captive for nearly fifty years. His long struggle to prove his
sanity ended with his conditional release in 1987. This book reveals
the grim extremity of his experience.

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