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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Rodney Taylor
Rodney Taylor was detained by ICE in January of 2025. He is a green card applicant and a double amputee. ICE had detained him because
Tony Mitchell
Tony Mithcell (Alabama) was a 33 year old man struggling with methamphetamine addiction and a mental health crisis when his family called 911 in January
My Medical Incarceration Story During Childbirth
(Note: this story illustrates the larger trend within medical incarceration where Black women are disproportionately mistreated by hospitals during childbirth. For more background information, see
Rosi Garcia
Around July 21, I got COVID because my boss forced me to work. I became very sick and spent three weeks in the hospital. However,
Camran Mohammed
Camran Mohammed is a poor, Asian American gay man with psychiatric disabilities currently incarcerated at Theo Lacy in Orange County, California. The state is trying