'It's not a hospital, it's a prison': Mother's desperate plea for release of her schizophrenic son after 263 days in solitary left him unrecognisable and in 'worse mental state

• Peter Minich, 31, is being held at Bridgewater State Hospital 
• His mother is demanding he is moved to another facility
• Says he's lost 40 pounds and his mental health has seriously deteriorated
• Lawsuit: He has spent about 70 percent of the time he has been held at Bridgewater in restraints or alone in a small cell 
• A mother has filed a lawsuit against a psychiatric institute claiming her son who has schizophrenia has been illegally kept in isolation or strapped to a bed for 70 per cent of his time at the facility. 
  Joanne Minich, from Brookline, Massachusetts, claims that her son Peter’s mental health has significantly deteriorated with more hallucinations and anxiety since he has been held at Bridgewater State Hospital and is demanding that he is transferred to a new facility.  
  The complaint filed in Norfolk Superior Court states Peter, 31, has been held in prolonged isolation at and continuously deprived of almost all human contact and exercise for more than 6,300 hours since January 2013 when he moved to the prison for the 'criminally insane.'
  
  

  Joanne Minich says that her son Peter's mental health has signific
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