Lacking Options, Officials Keep Schizophrenic in Jail

by midwestpagestop...
There was a story on NPR's morning edition about people being incarcerated in prisons because they lack appropriate mental health facilities:
There is a place where seriously mentally ill people are locked away for years in prison with little treatment because there is nowhere else to put them. Is this Romania? China? Nope. It's the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose residents are supposed to be protected by the U.S. Constitution. That's exactly what happened to Jonathan Ramos. Ramos got locked up for riding off on a bicycle from the Wal-Mart in St. Thomas in 2002.
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submitted on Thu, 2007-12-20 04:32

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