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Nobody Ever
Flies Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Charles A Carroll
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Charles
Carroll and his brother, Bobby, had the
misfortune of being hard-to-place foster children in New Jersey in the
1950s. So the powers that be simply reclassified them from “orphan” to
“retarded” and exiled them to a state mental institution. There they
remained for nearly ten years, deprived of their civil liberties, devoid
of their right to an education, and denied any semblance of a humane
existence.
Beneath the sanitized facade of the institution’s administrative offices
and visiting rooms were cramped dormitories and dank basement hellholes.
Lazy and inept personnel foisted off supervision of these children to
ruthless monitors—children themselves—who maintained order through
methods so sadistic and horrific that “child abuse” seems a chillingly
inadequate label.
Charles was a victim of an uncaring, ignorant, and underfunded
system—one that was kept just out of the view of polite society. But the
differentiating aspect of Charles’s incarceration in this “nuthouse” is
the ironic, cosmic hook in this story: he was not nuts. He was, in fact,
a sensitive and perceptive child with a normal IQ.
Moreover, Charles was consciously and painfully aware of every moment of
his own abuse as well as the torment of his mentally defective fellow
patients. Enduring their collective plight and clinging to his sanity,
as one would a tiny glimmer of hope, he vowed to one day write this
remarkable story of survival—not for his sake, but for the sake of
society’s outcasts and those too helpless to help themselves, then and
now.
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