US Jails Are New Mental Institutions–Mother Sues After Son Allegedly Beaten To Death By Mentally Ill Inmate (video and picture)

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Not only does the United States have the world’s highest number of prisoners–it is also housing huge amounts of mentally ill people in jails and prisons. Experts say five persont of the nation’s population are mentally ill: 15 percent of the nation’s incarcerated prisoners are mentally ill.

That means our jails and prisons are housing mentally ill individuals at 300% times the national average. This threatens to return us to the bad old days of the 18h and 19th centuries, where commuinities housed derilicts, the insane and the poor in concrete hellholes. 

If you weren’t crazy when you were institionalized, you soon would be.

Two men with apparent mental issues, one with a history of violence, were placed together in an Oklahoma County jail cell.

One ended up beaten to death, the other was charged with murder and now the dead man’s mother is suing Sheriff John Whetsel and county commissioners in federal court, alleging her son’s civil rights were violated. MOREHERE

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