Medical Incarceration
Medical Incarceration is involuntary or non-consensual detainment including, but not limited to:
- Psychiatric hospitalization
- “Assisted living facilities” and nursing homes
- Group homes/residential facilities and conservatorships/guardianships
- Use of solitary confinement within jails/prisons “for the inmate’s own safety” related to mental and/or physical health
- Use of solitary as “protection” for LGBTQIA2S community members
- Death penalty sentences for those who are disabled by mental illness and/or intellectual disability
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Medical Incarceration News
Noa Pothoven
Noa Pothoven (Netherlands) was a 17-year-old Dutch mental health activist and novelist from Arnhem who died on June 2, 2019, following years of systemic neglect
Care Ends and Confinement Begins
Last week, we shared the story of a woman who died while waiting for a psychiatric hospital bed after being declared too mentally ill to
Medical Incarceration: Too mentally ill for trial yet not enough beds to house her
A recent investigation found that people in Illinois who are deemed too mentally ill to stand trial are often left waiting for months in county
Medical Incarceration Monday: Supreme Court decision criminalizes mental illness.
The Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson decision handed down by the SCOTUS is a disability issue because ultimately, it criminalizes mental illness. The National Alliance
Canyon Creek Memory Care Community Neglecting Patients
Mary Ann Simons had a stroke and was unable to communicate or eat or drink independently, but court documents allege that she was left alone
Medical Incarceration Monday: “A hospital is suing to move a quadriplegic 18-year-old to a nursing home. She says no.”
This NPR story demonstrates medical incarceration in they way disability and medical needs can be criminalized within the medical and health care systems. It revolves
Five Dead in Nursing Home After Sunnyview Health & Rehab Hired Nurse Linked to 17 Patient Deaths
Sunnyview Health and Rehab is the latest nursing facility with links to so-called “killer nurse” Heather Pressdee facing lawsuits from surviving family members of the
Mental Health Courts
Mental health courts (MHCs) are specialized programs designed to address the legal issues and treatment needs of individuals with mental health disabilities and substance use