Medical Incarceration Stories
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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Health With No Dignity, by Taylor Broom, AKA CEO
At the time, I worked in sales, which required me to travel all over California to promote my product. On one particular trip, I had
Jamal Brown
Jamal Brown, 30, had been detained on a parole violation. Jamal had then passed away days later after he was not given medical aid. Mr.
Susie Balfour
Susie Balfour, 64 had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer just two weeks before she would be released from prison. She had blamed the past
Nhon Ngoc Nguyen
Nhon Ngoc Nguyen (Texas) was a 55-year-old Vietnamese refugee who entered the US in 1983 under the Refugee Act of 1980. He spent years living
Denny Adan Gonzalez
Note: This is a developing story. Details are still emerging and this entry will be updated as new information becomes available. Denny Adan Gonzalez (Georgia)
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
Brayan Garzón-Rayo
Brayan Garzón-Rayo (Missouri), a 27-year-old Colombian man residing in St. Louis, died in ICE custody on April 8, 2025, at the Phelps County Jail in
Walid Daqqah
Walid Daqqah (Palestine) was a 62-year-old Palestinian writer, activist, and political prisoner from the Palestinian town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye in Israel, who died on April