Via R [J4MB]: Here’s one for you: In today’s Guardian there is a story concerning the death of a woman in prison, apparently by suicide – ‘Sarah Reed was a tragic victim of how the prison system treates women’.
Now we know that the overwhelming majority (90%+) of people who commit suicide in prisons and Young Offender Institutions are men, but given this story is in the Guardian, we cannot be surprised that the female journo (Frances Crook) makes no mention of that minor detail. Indeed she shows no sympathy whatsoever towards the large number of men and boys who commit suicide whilst in the hands of the criminal justice system.
The thrust of the article is how badly women are treated by the criminal justice system and in prisons, and especially in the context of women with mental health issues…..
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/sarah-reed-prison-system-women-mental-health
But I bring this to your attention, not for the article itself, but for this amazing comment… and I leave to your judgment if a woman would have been treated this way…7h ago 2021
“The way in which “difficult” people in this country with mental health issues are treated is scandalous.
Now we know that the overwhelming majority (90%+) of people who commit suicide in prisons and Young Offender Institutions are men, but given this story is in the Guardian, we cannot be surprised that the female journo (Frances Crook) makes no mention of that minor detail. Indeed she shows no sympathy whatsoever towards the large number of men and boys who commit suicide whilst in the hands of the criminal justice system.
The thrust of the article is how badly women are treated by the criminal justice system and in prisons, and especially in the context of women with mental health issues…..
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/sarah-reed-prison-system-women-mental-health
But I bring this to your attention, not for the article itself, but for this amazing comment… and I leave to your judgment if a woman would have been treated this way…7h ago 2021
“The way in which “difficult” people in this country with mental health issues are treated is scandalous.
I watched my local hospital leave someone to die on the pavement outside and I can’t find anyone in authority who cares, or even admits its a problem.