TS Radio Network: Part 2 Curtis a prisoner of guardianship

Meg Tanner of Atlanta is back to continue the heart wrenching story about the seven-year journey of pursuing justice for her brother, Curtis Tanner of Birmingham, who from many people’s perspectives was essentially made a prisoner as a result of being placed in an ill-willed and contested (by Curtis, friends and family)  guardianship and conservatorship.

In spite of Curtis repeatedly, consistently, and clearly communicating via conversations, writing and even meetings with legal and professional representatives that he was being denied freedoms and civil liberties including visitation with family and friends, as well as being isolated and deprived of any real quality of life, his pleas and those of his family, friends, and facility caregivers have for the most part fallen on deaf ears.   

Her brother has written many journals, and the one that haunts and motivates her the most is………NO ONE TOLD ME I WOULD STAY IN THIS FACILITY UNTIL I DIE.  After being cut off from Curtis for six months in 2018, Meg and her sister were slipped in his facility by a nurse, and he shared, “put it this way, there is a lot out there, almost like a Super Highway in my mind that is going by me…life and I’m standing on the side with my thumb out and nobody will pick me up…that’s how I see it in my mind,”.

In June of 2021, his guardian took the isolation to a new level when she “hid” him from almost all family and friends. They have not been allowed to see him, speak to him or even know where he is located or any details about his condition other than “he is too unstable to see anyone.”   

Meg is speaking out on behalf of him and all the other victims in hopes that hearts will be turned, and systems will be changed. If a society is indeed judged by how we treat the most vulnerable, we have work to do.