For police and prosecutors, often perceived as the engines of public safety, human caging is the primary tool in their tool kit. People who have served time in prison are less likely to succeed than people who have never been in the system; that is because confinement is seemingly designed to destroy mental health. In…
“If you can’t process instructions, sometimes you are physically forced to comply.” People in jail experience mental disabilities at a high rate and most go without reporting them. This makes people vulnerable in prison. Inmates with mental disabilities are subject to mistreatment by other inmates and even jail staff. Solitary confinement is being used on…
The criminal system can seem procedurally complex with many moving players and parts. While defense attorneys can lead someone through this system, it often takes all of a persons’ health providers, clinicians, and family or other support networks to keep a defendant’s life on track. Criminal cases can sometimes require months or even years of…
Mental health providers often have ideas and solutions for how to keep someone struggling with a mental illness out of the justice system. It can be an attorney’s job to translate a proper plan of treatment to a court so the judge may have hope that it is safe to commit someone accused of or…