Trapped: Mental Illness in Americas Prisons
-
-
- everyminute1
- added this
I have heard it to many times. Jail and prisons are the new mental health hospitals. I spent 9 1/2 months in jail for having a blackout on my medications. I woke in the the night, drove through a stand of trees, took out 8 mailboxes, 2 stop signs and a telephone pole before being stopped by a parked car. When I woke up in a jail cell I FREAKED..... I have my toxicology report. NO alcohol, NO anything, other than 2 of the psych meds I was prescibed in "therapeutic" levels.. The DA told me he needed to go after me harder because I knew I was on drugs and shouldn't have been driving... So there I sat... Riding out an 11-29 (11 mo. 29 days) broke, no license and no way to get to and from probation office or pay fines..
-
-
Kimberly_Gilkey
-
As I watched this video not only did my heart ache for the mentally ill inmate but for the staff that are required to take care of them. I believe that the prosecuting attorneys and judges need a good dose of reality and what is truly going on in our jails/prisons. Perhaps a day walking these corridors and listening to the cries for help will enlighten them so they do not continually sentence the mentally ill to incarceration in places that are not fit to take care of them. I seen staff here that appear to truly care about these inmates and for that I am very greateful.
- 1 year ago
-
Kimberly_Gilkey
