[OC] Forced Electroshock Treatment Petitions Filed in the State of Connecticut (2012-2024) by Ok-Effort5459
October 28, 2025In 1986, the state of Idaho within the U.S. passed the Unified Sentencing Act, Idaho Code § 19-2513, changing its sentencing scheme from one of ‘Good Conduct, Early Parole’ to a statutory scheme with mandatory minimum sentences. Since then, sentencing rates have skyrocketed.
Ok-Effort5459 on October 26, 2025 2:40 pm Data from: [Forced Electroshock Treatment Petitions Filed in the State of Connecticut (2012-2024)](https://jim-flannery.com/data/stoptheshockct/Involuntary-Electroshock-Petitions-Filed-in-Connecticut-(2012-2024)-with-attachments.pdf) Graph generated with MS Excel
TheBurningEmu on October 26, 2025 2:43 pm I’m going to guess that this coincides with both the start of the “autism epidemic” as a concept people began to worry about, as well as just general conspiracism starting to take off in early 2010’s.
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Data from: [Forced Electroshock Treatment Petitions Filed in the State of Connecticut (2012-2024)](https://jim-flannery.com/data/stoptheshockct/Involuntary-Electroshock-Petitions-Filed-in-Connecticut-(2012-2024)-with-attachments.pdf)
Graph generated with MS Excel
I’m going to guess that this coincides with both the start of the “autism epidemic” as a concept people began to worry about, as well as just general conspiracism starting to take off in early 2010’s.