Ignored and Underfunded, Mental Health Care Thin at County Jails
Key GOP lawmaker wants to look into issues in county correctional system.
For more than a decade, Milwaukee County’s jail system has been under the scrutiny of a court-appointed medical monitor for its failure to provide adequate health care, including for inmates with mental illness. In August, the monitor found mental health care in Milwaukee County’s two jails was still in shambles. Among the problems: Vacancies in top medical positions left jailers to make medical decisions, such as when an inmate should be removed from suicide watch. A man who had threatened to kill himself stopped eating and drinking for four days and was never taken to a hospital. He died in his cell. Mental health advocates and correctional officials agree that Wisconsin’s 72 county-run jails are strapped for resources and not prepared …
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9:32 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
People in Wisconsin, DO NOT understand mental-illness! This is "physical". There are meds to correct this. No need to put these poor people in JAIL! This is despicable to say the LEAST, evil and DUMB. Try telling this to the crackpot DAs that put these people in there. SHAME on them. Get educated, you are not paid to punish them, HELLOOOOO. more ›