Mentally Ill Detainees Rarely Get Care
The detainee at the South Texas Immigration Detention Facility was put on suicide watch after she cut herself with a razor and tried to strangle herself with a shoelace. A physician’s assistant recommended hospitalizing her.
Instead, the chief physician put the physically disabled woman in an isolated cell and took away her crutches, according to inspection reports that don’t name the woman. She was strip-searched and denied feminine products. For days, the woman slid around the floor of the cell on scraped knees, covering herself and the cell in menstrual blood.
When inspectors with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
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eamartinez
Great intro. Has it always been this way? If not, how did we get to this point? What are the issues framing the detention policy? Is it funding? Training? A misanthropic approach to the treatment of immigrants -- i.e. institutional racism -- that dictates this result? What are the alternatives, if any? If things are this way, its possible that it's because someone (or a group of someones) wants it this way. Who's happy with the status quo and why?