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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCops Starve Mentally Ill Citizen to Death as Punishment “for Being Offensive”
http://filmingcops.com/cops-starve-mentally-ill-citizen-death-punishment-offensive/Settling a stunning and unconscionable case at Rikers Island Prison, a mother reached a $5.75 million deal with New York City over her mentally ill sons death alone in his cell after he was starved of food, water and medical care for a week.
Almost exactly three years ago, schizophrenic and diabetic inmate Bradley Ballard was found dead in his cell, his naked body lying in his own vomit and feces, with a rubber band wrapped around his genitals.
Prison guards had locked Ballard up in a mental health unit for seven days without sustenance or medication to punish him for dancing in a way that offended a female officer, according to his mothers lawsuit, filed one year after his death.
Almost exactly three years ago, schizophrenic and diabetic inmate Bradley Ballard was found dead in his cell, his naked body lying in his own vomit and feces, with a rubber band wrapped around his genitals.
Prison guards had locked Ballard up in a mental health unit for seven days without sustenance or medication to punish him for dancing in a way that offended a female officer, according to his mothers lawsuit, filed one year after his death.
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Cops Starve Mentally Ill Citizen to Death as Punishment “for Being Offensive” (Original Post)
KamaAina
Oct 2016
OP
Our prisons are full of mentally ill people and folks arrested for pot smoking.
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2016
#5
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. No words, but we're told to respect them .Impossible.
fucks
femmedem
(8,203 posts)3. The settlement is a start, but it's unbelievable that no one lost their jobs
or faced charges. A human being was in their care and at their mercy. If a foster parent did that to a child, they'd be facing murder charges.
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)4. The people guarding him were insane hardened criminals
like those in the concentration camps during WWII.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. Our prisons are full of mentally ill people and folks arrested for pot smoking.
Rapists and child abusers are apparently too good to be forced to mix with their like.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)6. Sad
salin
(48,955 posts)7. No words.
Horrific. I can't imagine the state of mind of those guards who would think/act that with holding food and medication for a week was legitimate. It was murder. How can one confined (no means to find food/sustenance) live for seven days with out being provided with food? Sounds like institutional sanctioned murder. How could no one in the unit realize that this man had not been given food or medication for seven days?