Columnist JohnArchibald on the deaths of Tommy Lee Rutledge, 44, in 2020, and Anthony Mitchell, 33, last month, in Alabama lockups: 'One inmate was baked. As if in an oven... Another inmate was frozen to death. Apparently stored like meat in a freezer.'
It is difficult to process the negligence of a federal prison that allows a mentally ill man to die in a hot room, his face stuck to the window where he took his last breath trying to suck a little cool air.
It is less difficult, though, if you’ve paid attention to how much of this country, and Alabama specifically, treats mental illness and incarceration. Hundreds more died in federal prisons in that time, and across the country thousands – more than 10,000,The number of drug or alcohol-related deaths in state prisons across the country rose 623% from 2001 to 2019, from 35 to 253,More than 40 percent of people in state prisons and local jails nationally have been diagnosed with a mental disorder,Two-thirds of those in federal prison and three-fourths of those in state prison got no mental health care while locked up.
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