How America Turned Jails Into Psychiatric Facilities — and Called the Deaths Inevitable When the largest psychiatric facility in Texas is a jail, the deaths stop looking like anomalies and start looking like the system working exactly as designed. Another person died in the Harris County Jail this month. Another headline. Another set of familiar… Continue reading A System Working as Designed
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A Jail, Not a Graveyard
There are some things a community should never grow used to. Death inside a county jail is one of them. Yet here we are — watching the same headlines cycle through our feeds, hearing the same recycled explanations from officials, witnessing the same failures repeat year after year. If this were once or twice, maybe… Continue reading A Jail, Not a Graveyard
On (In)justice 