Cogent Benger Documentary Trailer
The program, directed by Leslie Fruman, examines mentally ill people who have been excused of crimes by the legal verdict of Not Criminally Responsible. One is an explosive man with severe depression who meets a tragic end. Another struggles with addiction, schizophrenia and violence before finding a kind of a peace. And the story of a third is almost too extraordinary to tell - within months of killing his son, he is back home, controlled by a new generation of powerful drugs. All three fall under the care of a pioneering psychiatrist who takes the controversial view that the criminally disturbed can live out in the community.