Sarah Stillman

And these were people often in their 30s or 40s or again, even their teens who had died of starvation, which doesn't seem terribly natural, but that's how it's classified most of the time in the records.

It really runs the gamut. I mean, I found a case in Florida of a young person in his 20s that was classified as a suicide and the cause of death was described as fasting. And in other cases, as I mentioned, sometimes it is actually found to be a homicide because these people were in the care of a facility that didn't care for them.

It really runs the gamut. I mean, I found a case in Florida of a young person in his 20s that was classified as a suicide and the cause of death was described as fasting. And in other cases, as I mentioned, sometimes it is actually found to be a homicide because these people were in the care of a facility that didn't care for them.

It really runs the gamut. I mean, I found a case in Florida of a young person in his 20s that was classified as a suicide and the cause of death was described as fasting. And in other cases, as I mentioned, sometimes it is actually found to be a homicide because these people were in the care of a facility that didn't care for them.

And then in other cases, it is listed as exactly what it was, but classified as natural. So it really, you see the full range.

And then in other cases, it is listed as exactly what it was, but classified as natural. So it really, you see the full range.

And then in other cases, it is listed as exactly what it was, but classified as natural. So it really, you see the full range.

I believe so. It makes a difference, too, to what the public knows and doesn't know. I mean, I think we haven't really understood this to be a pattern for quite some time because it's hard to surface it.

I believe so. It makes a difference, too, to what the public knows and doesn't know. I mean, I think we haven't really understood this to be a pattern for quite some time because it's hard to surface it.

I believe so. It makes a difference, too, to what the public knows and doesn't know. I mean, I think we haven't really understood this to be a pattern for quite some time because it's hard to surface it.

And I think there's many, many more cases than we know of because many of the cases I was able to find I found through the painstaking process of looking for litigation and doing these record searches. But one has to imagine there's many cases we never find out about. Because people like the main woman I wrote about, Mary Casey, she actually died in hospice care, not in the actual jail itself.

And I think there's many, many more cases than we know of because many of the cases I was able to find I found through the painstaking process of looking for litigation and doing these record searches. But one has to imagine there's many cases we never find out about. Because people like the main woman I wrote about, Mary Casey, she actually died in hospice care, not in the actual jail itself.

And I think there's many, many more cases than we know of because many of the cases I was able to find I found through the painstaking process of looking for litigation and doing these record searches. But one has to imagine there's many cases we never find out about. Because people like the main woman I wrote about, Mary Casey, she actually died in hospice care, not in the actual jail itself.

So she would never be counted as a jail death. And I think it's also important to note, I mean, most of these cases are people who the jail wasn't always the one depriving them of food and water. I mean, much of the time it was people who just were being untreated for their mental health issues, often placed in solitary and ceasing to eat, which I think it's not intuitive to many people.

So she would never be counted as a jail death. And I think it's also important to note, I mean, most of these cases are people who the jail wasn't always the one depriving them of food and water. I mean, much of the time it was people who just were being untreated for their mental health issues, often placed in solitary and ceasing to eat, which I think it's not intuitive to many people.

So she would never be counted as a jail death. And I think it's also important to note, I mean, most of these cases are people who the jail wasn't always the one depriving them of food and water. I mean, much of the time it was people who just were being untreated for their mental health issues, often placed in solitary and ceasing to eat, which I think it's not intuitive to many people.

And it wasn't intuitive to me when I began that that's actually a common, predictable symptom of certain mental health disorders. Because they believe that the food may be poisoned or... Also because of severe depression, because of all the things that happen to you when you're placed in solitary.

And it wasn't intuitive to me when I began that that's actually a common, predictable symptom of certain mental health disorders. Because they believe that the food may be poisoned or... Also because of severe depression, because of all the things that happen to you when you're placed in solitary.

And it wasn't intuitive to me when I began that that's actually a common, predictable symptom of certain mental health disorders. Because they believe that the food may be poisoned or... Also because of severe depression, because of all the things that happen to you when you're placed in solitary.

You know, I talked to this one professor, Craig Haney, who's an expert on these things across many decades. And he does a lot of jail visits. And he said, look, you have to imagine that even as a healthy person, he goes into many of these solitary cells and instantaneously gets overwhelmed by the despair of it. And so you can imagine if you already have a preexisting mental health issue, you're