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Austin leaders want the city to do a full-scale review into how multiple departments respond to mental health crisis calls to potentially lessen the role of police.

Montgomery police have launched new “Take Me Home” program which aims to create a database of those who have difficulty communicating due to a developmental or cognitive disability. The city says it will help ensure individuals are returned home safely.

#MedicalIncarcerationMonday.Audit finds little evidence involuntary patients informed of their rights, auditor general finds shoddy documentation of appeals from mental health review board.

Hidden Casualties: Executions Harm Mental Health of Prison Staff.

Indiana & Oklahoma put mentally ill inmates to death."Their executions underscore one of the most barbarous features of the death penalty system in America, which condemns inmates to death despite their documented severe mental illness.".

#MedicalIncarcerationMonday.China's psychiatric hospitals are being used to silence critics. BBC Eye goes undercover to gather evidence that doctors are colluding with Chinese police to lock away protestors.

Line’s #medicalincarceration is just a few weeks away if her doctors fail to listen. However, people in the online ME community have put together a letter to Line’s doctor urging them to change course. Now, they need as many people as possible to sign it.

#MedicalIncarcerationMonday.26-year-old Line Langager Anderson, living with severe ME, faces #psychiatricincarceration after her doctors falsely label her symptoms as psychiatric. She’s being forced to take harmful antipsychotics. Her life is at risk.

"Jail offers Restorative Learning Dialogues - an 8-10 wk program focused on repairing relationships.".Restorative circles give people space to reconnect with their humanity. Stories like Lynsey's show us what's possible when we see people, not problems.

#MedicalIncarcerationMonday “No vision of ever getting out.” Federal suit claims SC leaves ppl w/ serious mental illnesses trapped in group homes. Residents can’t choose meals, roommates, or work, and live in conditions similar to asylums of 150 years ago.

#StolenLives Since 2017, at least 2 men with serious mental illness died in NH State Prison after being restrained face down by officers. Advocates say they reflect long-running problems with how the state cares for most vulnerable people in its custody.

#MedicalIncarcerationMonday.Medical Incarceration often hides behind labels like "care facilities." For-profit nursing homes like South Jersey Extended Care exploit Medicaid, leaving elders and disabled people in prison-like conditions.