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A mixed-race black woman, Reed's mental health problems began in 2003 after the sudden death of her baby daughter. [5] [6] [7] Along with the baby's father, she was given the wrapped remains to take to the undertakers in a taxi. [8] In 2012, Reed was the victim of a severe attack from a white police officer PC James Kiddie, and suffered two ...
Obtaining a compassionate release for a prison inmate is a process that varies from country to country (and sometimes even within countries) but generally involves petitioning the warden or court to the effect that the subject is terminally ill and would benefit from obtaining aid outside of the prison system, or is otherwise eligible under the relevant law.
Prison authorities constantly disregarded the prisoners with symptoms and did not allow them to get tested for the airborne disease. Some of the prisoners were called back to the prison after they were confirmed of being infected in the hospital.
In March, the death of Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man who died during intake at the mental health facility in Virginia, sparked outrage, and 10 people have been charged with second-degree ...
The 9-month-old baby died of suffocation, according to the Fayette County Coroner’s Office.
The term institutionalization can also be used to describe the process of committing an individual to a mental hospital or prison, or to describe institutional syndrome; thus the phrase "X is institutionalized" may mean either that X has been placed in an institution or that X is suffering the psychological effects of having been in an ...
In the 1984 study Criminalizing mental disorder: The comparative arrest rate of the mentally ill, researcher L. A. Taplin notes that in addition to a decline in federal support for mental illness resulting in more people being denied treatment, mentally ill people are often stereotyped as dangerous, making fear a factor in action taken against ...
After a year marked by student deaths at NC State, the university wants students to know about resources available to them. Back to school can mean back to stress: How to get mental health help at ...