I came to hate cash bail when I heard the story of the young student being held in jail in Rikers for 3 years for being suspected of stealing a bookbag from another student until he committed suicide.https://www.nytimes.com/201....
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Richard Blodgett, a single father, was jailed on a drug charge when a worker from Arizona's child welfare agency delivered the news: His son was brain dead and on life support — just days after being taken into state custody.
Blodgett screamed, cried and screamed some more. Jakob was his only son, a “darn cute," curious 9-year-old who loved remote control cars and video games.
Blodgett is now struggling to understand how it happened.
A medical examiner listed Jakob's death in late December as natural with complications from diabetes, a condition he was diagnosed with as a toddler. Specifically, Type 1 diabetes, which means his body was unable to produce enough insulin to survive.
Blodgett said he suspects the Arizona Department of Child Safety failed in its duty to protect his son, either by not monitoring his blood sugar levels or not ensuring that Jakob had enough insulin to prevent a serious, life-threatening complication known as ketoacidosis.
Warehousing is an adequate description of keeping people with disabilities in institutional settings without providing treatment - in fact, when you consider the conditions of confinement that prevailed in those facilities prior to the big institutional reform litigation and deinstitutionalization it's way too mild - the conditions in many facilities were so bad to qualify as torture
Also people could be committed to hospitals for life for just about any reason - Central State Hospital (Virginia) a segregated facility for black people up until 1967 had numerous people committed for the "delusional" belief that they were equal to white people. There were over 4000 total patients there in 1970 - including people with mental illness, people with developmental disabilities, and people committed despite not being either. Many of the wards had 100 patients and 1 nurse. The conditions were horrific, restraint use common. People were subject to being abused, raped, used in medical experiments, forcibly sterilized,and even being murdered. The conditions in those facilities at best were full of neglect and at worse were torture.
That's not rhetoric - that's what things were like in hospitals and "state schools" across the country. And abuse and neglect as well as being held without treatment or being held due to lack of available services is still common.
Far too many people complain about closing or downsizing mental health facilities without acknowledging what the conditions in those hospitals were like. And indeed are like.
Thanks to politicians who shuttered the mental hospitals and psyche centers to the general public and forced the police to deal with the problem of the mentally ill, something most cops aren't trained to deal with, so blame the fucking politicians.
Hell, Reagan would be considered a damned commie liberal by Republicans today. Especially for his dislike of the current GOP's favorite autocracy, Russia.
Can't blame the voters for this one.
I came to hate cash bail when I heard the story of the young student being held in jail in Rikers for 3 years for being suspected of stealing a bookbag from another student until he committed suicide.https://www.nytimes.com/201....
You bastard. 😁
ah yes. locking people with disabilities away and letting them starve to death. the good old days.
Is that the third time?
I thought I heard your cock crow.
What happened to his right to a speedy trial?
"Collateral damage" -
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Richard Blodgett, a single father, was jailed on a drug charge when a worker from Arizona's child welfare agency delivered the news: His son was brain dead and on life support — just days after being taken into state custody.
Blodgett screamed, cried and screamed some more. Jakob was his only son, a “darn cute," curious 9-year-old who loved remote control cars and video games.
Blodgett is now struggling to understand how it happened.
A medical examiner listed Jakob's death in late December as natural with complications from diabetes, a condition he was diagnosed with as a toddler. Specifically, Type 1 diabetes, which means his body was unable to produce enough insulin to survive.
Blodgett said he suspects the Arizona Department of Child Safety failed in its duty to protect his son, either by not monitoring his blood sugar levels or not ensuring that Jakob had enough insulin to prevent a serious, life-threatening complication known as ketoacidosis.
1/16/2023
Warehousing is an adequate description of keeping people with disabilities in institutional settings without providing treatment - in fact, when you consider the conditions of confinement that prevailed in those facilities prior to the big institutional reform litigation and deinstitutionalization it's way too mild - the conditions in many facilities were so bad to qualify as torture
Also people could be committed to hospitals for life for just about any reason - Central State Hospital (Virginia) a segregated facility for black people up until 1967 had numerous people committed for the "delusional" belief that they were equal to white people. There were over 4000 total patients there in 1970 - including people with mental illness, people with developmental disabilities, and people committed despite not being either. Many of the wards had 100 patients and 1 nurse. The conditions were horrific, restraint use common. People were subject to being abused, raped, used in medical experiments, forcibly sterilized,and even being murdered. The conditions in those facilities at best were full of neglect and at worse were torture.
That's not rhetoric - that's what things were like in hospitals and "state schools" across the country. And abuse and neglect as well as being held without treatment or being held due to lack of available services is still common.
Far too many people complain about closing or downsizing mental health facilities without acknowledging what the conditions in those hospitals were like. And indeed are like.
Thanks to politicians who shuttered the mental hospitals and psyche centers to the general public and forced the police to deal with the problem of the mentally ill, something most cops aren't trained to deal with, so blame the fucking politicians.
There is a very slight difference between the cash bail system and debtors prison. We were supposed to keep better prisons illegal forever. We failed
You can thank St Ronnie raygun
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The Fascist gun in the West!
Positively Dickensian. Onwards to workhouses and child labor!
When your tool of choice is a gun, every Black person becomes a target.
Hell, Reagan would be considered a damned commie liberal by Republicans today. Especially for his dislike of the current GOP's favorite autocracy, Russia.