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When Mental Illness Meets Blackness Behind Bars When I wrote through January, I kept coming back to the same truth: so many of the in‑custody deaths we see begin long before anyone steps into a jail. They start with untreated mental illness, with crises that get met by police instead of clinicians, with families calling… Continue reading Treatment Denied, Arrest Delivered

That’s Harris County Jail in a nutshell. The inspections, the deaths, the repeated failures — all documented in public records — and yet the system continues to operate below the minimum standard for human safety. This isn’t a system struggling.This is a system refusing to meet the bare minimum required to keep people alive.This is… Continue reading Documented. Repeated. Ignored.