11/10/2023 0 Comments Just mercy annotations![]() Stevenson remarks on the many others evaluated by Seger whose convictions hadn’t been reconsidered. EJI got involved years later, and got George’s conviction overturned after discovering that “Dr. When George’s mother asked the lawyers to collect George’s paycheck (hoping the fact that a poor man hadn’t picked up his money could serve as evidence of his condition), the lawyers instead cashed it for themselves. George’s lawyers were busy fighting over the limited compensation offered to them by the court. Seger, reported that George was “faking” psychosis. An officer pulled his gun, and in the ensuing scuffle George shot him. He was kicked off for making strange noises, and he entered strangers’ homes until police were called. Before his family could get him medical help, George left town on a bus. George Daniel was a man who developed hallucinations and nonsensical speech after incurring brain damage during a car accident. 6 Stand SUMMARY Stevenson describes two cases in Gadsden, Alabama, where black men died at the hands of the police. Stevenson writes that prisons are often unprepared to treat and deal with mentally ill people, and so they end up punishing the mentally ill for behavior related to their illness, which worsens their condition. However, mass incarceration, poverty, and drug epidemics, along with lack of access to treatment, again led to mass incarceration and criminalization of the mentally ill. In the middle of the twentieth century, activist efforts again worked to establish rights for the mentally ill and move from hospitalization to community programs. However, mass institutionalization became problematic because of forced hospitalization, mistreatment, over-drugging, and hospitalization of “socially deviant” individuals such as homosexuals. In the late 1900’s, activist efforts helped to move the mentally ill population from prisons to state and private hospitals. He mentions the term convict leasing where free men convicted of a crime. ![]() Up to the nineteenth century, mentally ill individuals often ended up incarcerated. In chapter 16, Bryan Stevenson compares African Americans on death row to slavery. Stevenson writes about the history of the mentally ill and disabled in in the American prison system. ![]()
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