Even if the deaths aren’t from beatings by guards, what gets me is — you’re in jail, all freedoms canceled, leaving jailers completely responsible for your survival. But you don’t survive. And it’s barely even noted.
That’s a really good point. From your article, she was apparently in there for like nine months, too, on “charges,” so not because she was even convicted of anything yet.
So, long enough to know about her, long enough to have done medical screening for underlying issues, and certainly more than long enough for them to release her pending trial, but I’d speculate that she didn’t have the money to pay an exorbitant bail or the credit for a bondsman, so they just tossed her in with minimal oversight and zero care. If only she’d had the foresight to be born rich.
Five or so years ago I’d probably scroll right past an article like this and think nothing of it.
Now, the “found unresponsive” just draws my suspicion, like “officer-involved shooting” where bullet holes seem to appear in people by magic.
Might still be nothing, but immediate suspicion seems like the only sensible response anymore.
Even if the deaths aren’t from beatings by guards, what gets me is — you’re in jail, all freedoms canceled, leaving jailers completely responsible for your survival. But you don’t survive. And it’s barely even noted.
Every death in jail ought to be a scandal.
That’s a really good point. From your article, she was apparently in there for like nine months, too, on “charges,” so not because she was even convicted of anything yet.
So, long enough to know about her, long enough to have done medical screening for underlying issues, and certainly more than long enough for them to release her pending trial, but I’d speculate that she didn’t have the money to pay an exorbitant bail or the credit for a bondsman, so they just tossed her in with minimal oversight and zero care. If only she’d had the foresight to be born rich.
Yup. Being born rich is the solution to so many of life’s worries, problems, and deaths.