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Her mother was given custody of the children.Montano and husband Jose Montano spent about 18 hours on the run with their children, then ages 2 and 3, until authorities caught them at a motel in the Florida Panhandle in June 2003.

The children were unharmed.Nora Montano had been found not guilty by reason of insanity.She had been living in a group home until a couple of weeks ago when she was kicked out for not taking her medication and losing control, according to her attorney, Patrick Rastatter.

She was living with caregiver Martha Paret while her guardians found a new group home.She left a note for Paret about Monday morning saying she was biking 3€ miles to a store.“I think they let her leave the hospital too soon,” Paret said.

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Prior to the incident, 32-year-old Lucas Schloming was not taking his anti-psychotic medication.

He had no job, and he was living at his parents' home in Cambridge, Mass.

Schloming's punishment doesn't fit the crime, his family says.

He was ordered for a 30-day psychiatric evaluation that took three months.

No medication was given during that time, they say.

After the evaluation, he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial.

He has been at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C., for six months – still, with no medication being given, his father says.

Because of his mental illness, he's being treated like a "political prisoner," says his father, Skip Schloming.

"He's being incarcerated without a trial." Millions of people with mental illness commit crimes.

Many of them are guilty.

In the eyes of the public, however, few are presumed innocent, mental health advocates say.

Once they enter the judicial system, people with ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b, schizophrenia and other disorders are at a disadvantage, advocates say.

They lack understanding of their illness and the legal system.

Many can't speak for themselves.

Nor can many afford a lawyer, since the vast majority of people with mental illness are poor.

They lack the wherewithal to cop a plea bargain and cut themselves a break.

According to the U.S.

Department of Justice, nearly 16 percent of the nation's incarcerated population is mentally ill, and 53 percent of the inmates with severe mental illness have been...

...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b, there's something unfiltered about Daniel's art," says Feuerzeig.

"It goes from his brain directly to the paper or piano." But Feuerzeig would never have had the goods for a film if Johnston hadn't had an obsessive fetish for taping his ramblings.

The director had access to hundreds of hours of confessions and outbursts, which play throughout the movie.

Given his problems, however, one can't help but wonder if Johnston has been, in any way, exploited.

Feuerzeig asserts that the artist "is the wizard behind his own curtain.

He has always exploited his own mental illness by writing songs like 'I'm Having a Nervous Breakdown.'" While it may be a romantic cliché to make the connection between genius and madness, Feuerzeig feels that, here, it applies.

"He's a Kerouac-like character, who went on the road and chased his dream," he says.

"True, he suffered for his art, but listen to all the beauty that came out of it." Originally published on March 28, 2006 Fresh stories hot off the site every day via RSS!

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