Sarah Stillman

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.

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.

Yeah, it's a big set of intersecting histories, I think, because we've got the big history of deinstitutionalization. So people may be familiar with the idea that for a long time, many Americans who were struggling with mental health issues were held in psychiatric facilities that were often also very heinous conditions without the right kind of treatment.

Yeah, it's a big set of intersecting histories, I think, because we've got the big history of deinstitutionalization. So people may be familiar with the idea that for a long time, many Americans who were struggling with mental health issues were held in psychiatric facilities that were often also very heinous conditions without the right kind of treatment.

Yeah, it's a big set of intersecting histories, I think, because we've got the big history of deinstitutionalization. So people may be familiar with the idea that for a long time, many Americans who were struggling with mental health issues were held in psychiatric facilities that were often also very heinous conditions without the right kind of treatment.

And there was a rightful outcry about that. And then Instead of finding a genuine solution to the problem, what we decided to do as a country is make a big sweeping promise that we would take people out of these facilities and then provide actual mental health care in communities. And then that type of community care never really got resourced.

And there was a rightful outcry about that. And then Instead of finding a genuine solution to the problem, what we decided to do as a country is make a big sweeping promise that we would take people out of these facilities and then provide actual mental health care in communities. And then that type of community care never really got resourced.

And there was a rightful outcry about that. And then Instead of finding a genuine solution to the problem, what we decided to do as a country is make a big sweeping promise that we would take people out of these facilities and then provide actual mental health care in communities. And then that type of community care never really got resourced.

And instead, what we did is take off on the trajectory of mass incarceration. So seeing the increase of criminalizing people for being poor, criminalizing people for their addictions.

And instead, what we did is take off on the trajectory of mass incarceration. So seeing the increase of criminalizing people for being poor, criminalizing people for their addictions.

And instead, what we did is take off on the trajectory of mass incarceration. So seeing the increase of criminalizing people for being poor, criminalizing people for their addictions.

And so at that same time that we saw many, many people released from these psychiatric asylums that had been abusive, they basically just got re-swept up in the net of county jails and prisons and other places that weren't really well equipped to heal or even remotely address the realities of mental health.

And so at that same time that we saw many, many people released from these psychiatric asylums that had been abusive, they basically just got re-swept up in the net of county jails and prisons and other places that weren't really well equipped to heal or even remotely address the realities of mental health.

And so at that same time that we saw many, many people released from these psychiatric asylums that had been abusive, they basically just got re-swept up in the net of county jails and prisons and other places that weren't really well equipped to heal or even remotely address the realities of mental health.

Exactly. And I think many people don't know about the difference between a prison and a jail. A jail typically having been designed to be a short passing through space while you're either serving out a short sentence or awaiting trial.

Exactly. And I think many people don't know about the difference between a prison and a jail. A jail typically having been designed to be a short passing through space while you're either serving out a short sentence or awaiting trial.

Exactly. And I think many people don't know about the difference between a prison and a jail. A jail typically having been designed to be a short passing through space while you're either serving out a short sentence or awaiting trial.

And what we've seen also in this time period is just a massive surge in pretrial detention, people waiting sometimes not just months, but literally years just to have their day in court and people with mental health issues waiting.

And what we've seen also in this time period is just a massive surge in pretrial detention, people waiting sometimes not just months, but literally years just to have their day in court and people with mental health issues waiting.

And what we've seen also in this time period is just a massive surge in pretrial detention, people waiting sometimes not just months, but literally years just to have their day in court and people with mental health issues waiting.