Detention drives detainees mad

The Baxter detention centre must be a pretty nasty place:

Lawyers for the two Iranian detainees, one of whom took part in the November hunger strike on the Baxter roof, allege the Commonwealth failed in its duty of care towards the men, who suffer severe depression.

The court was told on Friday by an expert psychiatrist that the Baxter centre was an environment almost designed to produce mental illness. "It is a place that drives people mad," said Adelaide psychiatrist Jon Jureidini, who examined the men by video link early last week.

Psychiatrists find mental health problems everywhere they look. Speaking of looking, take a look at the Baxter centre's facilities, which are way better than I've had access to at some of the places I've lived. Then again, I am mad.