These Oklahomans Needed Mental Health Care Instead, They Died in Jail goodmenproject.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from goodmenproject.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Across the state and country, emergency situations can escalate quickly, leading to arrests and incarceration in jails where detention officers with minimal training are responsible for the health and safety
An 18-year-old was suffering a bipolar crisis when she was booked into the Seminole County jail. "She just got worse and worse, and no one did anything to help her,"
Lena Corona was sitting on the porch of her Seminole home, blood dripping from her hand, when police arrived at 2:45 a.m. Her dad stood behind her, pressing a T-shirt over the wound on his chest where Corona had plunged a shard of glass. When he called 911 on July 10, Freddy Corona hoped police woul.