We’ve been reporting on the state’s civil commitment process in partnership with Mississippi Today. These are the most important findings.

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

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240117125741/https://www.propublica.org/article/5-takeaways-about-how-mississippi-jails-people-for-mental-illness

  • TheFriar@lemm.ee
    1·
    10 months ago

    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?

    • Masterblaster@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • TheFriar@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 months ago

        That’s so great! Glad to hear, my brother loves Oregon. We’ll best of luck out there, enjoy!