Sarah Stillman

And so Mary, although when she had arrived, she had immediately articulated that she is someone who needs psychiatric medications, at least as far as we understand it from the documents. But she didn't receive those, didn't receive at the start any chance to see a psychiatrist or get the kind of treatment that she needed and waited quite some time for that.

Again, mind you, she's waiting there actually pre-trial, like the vast majority of the people that arrived. I reported on for this piece and wound up not being brought to many of her jail hearings because of the fact that she had psychologically decompensated, which was actually how this piece was initially pitched to me.

Again, mind you, she's waiting there actually pre-trial, like the vast majority of the people that arrived. I reported on for this piece and wound up not being brought to many of her jail hearings because of the fact that she had psychologically decompensated, which was actually how this piece was initially pitched to me.

Again, mind you, she's waiting there actually pre-trial, like the vast majority of the people that arrived. I reported on for this piece and wound up not being brought to many of her jail hearings because of the fact that she had psychologically decompensated, which was actually how this piece was initially pitched to me.

The attorneys had brought it to me saying many, many people are being deprived of their civil rights by virtue of the fact that they're being detained pre-trial for things they haven't even yet been found guilty of and then not being brought to their court hearings because they're They're having mental health issues that they're not being treated for in the jail.

The attorneys had brought it to me saying many, many people are being deprived of their civil rights by virtue of the fact that they're being detained pre-trial for things they haven't even yet been found guilty of and then not being brought to their court hearings because they're They're having mental health issues that they're not being treated for in the jail.

The attorneys had brought it to me saying many, many people are being deprived of their civil rights by virtue of the fact that they're being detained pre-trial for things they haven't even yet been found guilty of and then not being brought to their court hearings because they're They're having mental health issues that they're not being treated for in the jail.

And so people in the jail are determining that they can't even bring them to the hearing to get them out. Because so many of these people had charges that ultimately would have been dropped, as was ultimately the case for Mary when a judge saw her months later looking emaciated.

And so people in the jail are determining that they can't even bring them to the hearing to get them out. Because so many of these people had charges that ultimately would have been dropped, as was ultimately the case for Mary when a judge saw her months later looking emaciated.

And so people in the jail are determining that they can't even bring them to the hearing to get them out. Because so many of these people had charges that ultimately would have been dropped, as was ultimately the case for Mary when a judge saw her months later looking emaciated.

So ultimately, the very sad reality that I didn't know when I began reporting this is that if you've not eaten for many months or been dehydrated for many months, oftentimes medically you can't fully be revived. So the doctors met and made the decision that there was nothing that could actually bring Mary back to capacity and decided she could be released to hospice care to die.

So ultimately, the very sad reality that I didn't know when I began reporting this is that if you've not eaten for many months or been dehydrated for many months, oftentimes medically you can't fully be revived. So the doctors met and made the decision that there was nothing that could actually bring Mary back to capacity and decided she could be released to hospice care to die.

So ultimately, the very sad reality that I didn't know when I began reporting this is that if you've not eaten for many months or been dehydrated for many months, oftentimes medically you can't fully be revived. So the doctors met and made the decision that there was nothing that could actually bring Mary back to capacity and decided she could be released to hospice care to die.

So ultimately, the autopsy ruled it a death by protein calorie malnutrition, as you said. Which was a term I'd never heard. I mean, the really sad thing for me in reporting this was just learning so many of these terms that pertain to people who, because of being malnourished or dehydrated in the jails, died of a whole slew of causes that could have been so easily prevented.

So ultimately, the autopsy ruled it a death by protein calorie malnutrition, as you said. Which was a term I'd never heard. I mean, the really sad thing for me in reporting this was just learning so many of these terms that pertain to people who, because of being malnourished or dehydrated in the jails, died of a whole slew of causes that could have been so easily prevented.

So ultimately, the autopsy ruled it a death by protein calorie malnutrition, as you said. Which was a term I'd never heard. I mean, the really sad thing for me in reporting this was just learning so many of these terms that pertain to people who, because of being malnourished or dehydrated in the jails, died of a whole slew of causes that could have been so easily prevented.

Unlike, you know, I think so often about we've heard about police violence of the sort that happens in an instant or in a moment. Like we think about George Floyd. And then I also now have a new category in my brain.

Unlike, you know, I think so often about we've heard about police violence of the sort that happens in an instant or in a moment. Like we think about George Floyd. And then I also now have a new category in my brain.

Unlike, you know, I think so often about we've heard about police violence of the sort that happens in an instant or in a moment. Like we think about George Floyd. And then I also now have a new category in my brain.

That's these types of deaths that happen across many weeks or months even where everyone is looking and seeing a person grow more and more frail and not take their food trays day after day and still be allowed essentially to waste away.