Over 500 people with mental illness have died in Georgia’s jails in the past decade
Georgia is going through a mental health crisis. People with mental illness are not getting the care they need and are ending up in jails and prisons at an alarming rate. Once incarcerated, their mental health crises are considered bad behavior and are punished. They are surrounded by guards and officers who don’t understand mental health and are not trained to rehabilitate, but to force compliance. Given this situation, it is shocking, but not surprising, that