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    26-year-old Hosanna Dinkins was found unresponsive in a cell alone at the jail. Jail officials say Dinkins was being held there on a probate order while waiting to be transported to a mental health facility.    
    Dinkins was not facing any criminal charges.

    … According to jail officials, Dinkins was sent to jail on a probate order on June 28th. The order stated that she remain there until she could be transferred to a facility through the Department of Mental Health.    
    Dinkins father said he was told it would only take 13 days but 13 days turned into more than 30 days until Dinkins died in her cell on August 23rd. A preliminary autopsy from the Sumter County coroner rules out suicide as a cause of death and also shows no foul play.    
    Robinson says, “She should not have been detained here.”

  • Possiblystupid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So sad and so unnecessary. Our healthcare system is so broken. We need free universal healthcare just like all the other modern countries on the planet. Insurance companies are just ways for the rich to screw the not rich out of money.

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      1 year ago

      While I agree, what exactly, in this article, stated anything about insurance?

      This looks like a jail messing up (intentially or not) a transfer to a mental health facility.

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        1 year ago

        Understaffing and sparse care locations are a side effect of the capitalist exploitation of healthcare over the last few decades.

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      1 year ago

      Honest question cause I don’t fully understand the process, but, if she was being held on a probate order wouldn’t that mean she was refusing treatment? Which could happen even with universal healthcare?

      • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 year ago

        Any lawyers out there? I don’t know the term “probate order” as it’s used in the article, and Google only wants to tell me about probate, the legal process of processing an estate after someone has died.

        “Probate order” seems to be something else entirely.

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            1 year ago

            Thanks for the info, kind stranger. :)

            So… a mentally ill person needs care, but there are no slots open, so the judge has her stashed for a month in jail. The worst of American health care meets the worst of American police work. The only surprise is that she survived almost a month.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure I’ve never seen that before either.

      First time I’ve heard of anyone spending time in jail with no charges, so no mugshot. But jeez, sticking someone in jail for a month waiting for space to open in a mental facility is crazy. When Kafka met Orwell.