Hard Candy: Nobody Ever Flies over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey's book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a fictional account of abuses in a state mental hospital, while my book, HARD CANDY: Nobody Ever Flies Over the Cuckoo's Nest, though of a similar genre, is a true story. HARD CANDY spotlights a hard look into the bleak world of secretive bureaucracies that continue to maintain its operations just short of the Stone Age of insanity, and Hard Candy is the book they never wanted written. I wanted to believe things had changed, and I wanted...
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Charles Carroll and his brother, Bobby, had the misfortune of being hard-to-place foster children and New Jersey in the 1950s.
List of IllustrationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsHistory:New Lisbon Developmental CenterPart 1:Chapter 1:Sane Kids in Insane PlacesChapter 2:Thrown Out of the Twentieth CenturyChapter 3:The Gatekeepers of HellChapter 4:Thrown into the Belly of the Concrete BeastChapter 5:Where Even the Boogeyman CriedChapter 6:Synthesis of BrotherhoodChapter 7:KissesPart 2:Chapter 8:The New ManChapter 9:The Stone Age of InsanityChapter 10:The Lady in the Grey Flannel SuitPart 3:Chapter 11:Dr. AlprinChapter 12:A Peace Offering at the WindowChapter 13:Ruby and DustinChapter 14:A Popeye-Bluto DuetPart 4:Chapter 15:Mr. WheelerChapter 16:ChapStickChapter 17:A Stately AffairChapter 18:Refined Madness at Its BestPart 5:Chapter 19:Homicidal TendenciesChapter 20:Uttered Odes under Leafy SonnetsChapter 21:Britches, Pitchforks and HaystacksChapter 22:An Angel with a Dirty FaceChapter 23:BobbyChapter 24:Requiems of FearPart 6:Chapter 25:Thrown Back into the Twentieth CenturyChapter 26:The Explorer ScoutmasterChapter 27:Mt. Holly JailChapter 28:Radio City Music HallChapter 29:The Conduct MachinesChapter 30:Flight into DignityEpilogueAppendicesPrologue to AppendicesAppendix A:Abuses at New Lisbon into the Twenty-first Century -A.1U.S. Department of Justice Investigation of New Lisbon -A.2Legal Cases Brought Against New Lisbon -A.3Other Violence andDeath at New LisbonAppendix B:Abuses at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital into the Twenty-first CenturyAppendix C:Abuses Across America into the Twenty-first Century -C.1U.S. Department of Justice Investigations of Public Residential Facilities -C.2Psychiatric Drugs and Electroshock TherapyAppendix D:National Child Abuse Hotlines and Reporting Information by StateAppendix E:Books of InterestAppendix F:Websites on Child Abuse and Support for Victims -F.1Websites about Male Sexual Abuse -F.2Websites for Male and Female Victims of Abuse -F.3Resources for Helping an Abused Friend -F.4Websites for Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention -F.5Information on Reporting AbuseAppendix G:Websites Listing Registered Sex OffendersIllustration Credits
