Ex-Mental Patient Speaks Out in New Hip-Hop Album About Hartford’s Institute of Living
HARTFORD, Conn., October 14, 2022 – Connecticut native Jim Flannery surprised listeners with the release of his debut hip hop album, Sorry It’s Not Funny. The ten-track album provides a window into Flannery’s experiences being involuntary committed and forcibly drugged at mental hospitals across the United States, including Hartford’s Institute of Living. Flannery goes as far as to accuse the government of committing “state-sanctioned torture of its own citizens,” providing his own encounters as evidence. …