Advertisement An intellectually disabled woman who was locked in seclusion for 23 hours a day for seven years in NSW forensic mental health facilities graffitied the walls with her own blood. The woman, known by the pseudonym Melanie, was deprived of food and medicine if she misbehaved, and kept by herself in a room with a mattress on the floor and no natural light. Melanie, a pseudonym, was locked in seclusion for seven years. Credit:Disability Royal Commisson. Melanie’s story was revealed as part of the disability royal commission’s examination of the experiences of people with cognitive disabilities in the criminal justice system who are locked in indefinite detention in forensic mental health facilities.