'Albert Haines has spent 25 years of his life locked up. He was convicted of a minor crime and handed over to a mental institution. Psychiatrists have refused to let him out, even though they can’t really say what’s wrong with him and keep changing their diagnoses. They are a law unto themselves, and once entrapped by them, you are at their mercy. But Haines has found a lawyer, Kate Luscombe, who has fought for him. By the efforts of her and her firm, he is the first person in the history of England to obtain a public hearing, instead of the standard secret tribunal in which the psychiatric system is answerable to no one.'
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