People Jailed While Awaiting Mental Health Treatment Are Generally Treated the Same as People Accused of Crimes
Jails Can Be Deadly for People in Crisis
Mississippi Is a Stark Outlier in the U.S.
Despite a State Law, There Has Been Almost No Oversight of Jails That Hold People Awaiting Treatment
The Practice Is Not Limited to Small, Rural Counties
Can I ask why you stay in Mississippi?
i’ll be gone from here in april, but the other poster is right. poverty chains a lot of people here. we shouldn’t just turn our back on these states. there are people who are being eaten alive by this state’s piss poor government.
Well, good for you. I’m glad to hear you’re able to leave somewhere you dislike. Yeah, I read a heartbreaking piece, I think it was in propublica, about the poverty trap in rural US for young women specifically. I can’t find the article anymore. So maybe it wasn’t propublica, but it felt like one of their pieces.
Where will you go? Somewhere you’re excited about?
Oregon! very excited. my wife and I had been living there until halfway through the pandemic, when paying exorbitant amounts of rent to watch netflix didn’t make any sense. we had free housing in MS when we came back, but the time has come to move on.
That’s so great! Glad to hear, my brother loves Oregon. We’ll best of luck out there, enjoy!
Can I ask why you immediately consider moving a solution when the majority of Americans are too poor for it and Mississippians doubly so?
I mean, it was a general inquiry. I wasn’t being flippant about poverty or peoples family ties or the very real southern poverty trap — especially for young women. I was literally just asking the question, I wasn’t making a snide remark about Mississippi. I’ve never been there. I literally don’t think I could’ve asked it any more politely.