AP/Capital News Service investigation of suicides in U.S. jails finds neglect and broken rules are contributing to a crisis behind bars.
An arrangement of photos, flowers and Easter eggs surrounds the grave of Tanna Jo Fillmore on Friday, April 26, 2019, in Salt Lake City. Fillmore, who had a history of mental problems, killed herself in Duchesne County jail in 2016 while locked up on a probation violation. She told her mother she was being denied her prescription medicines that had stabilized her.
With suicides a problem in local jails across the U.S., a joint investigation by The Associated Press and the University of Maryland’s Capital News Service finds many jails have been sued or investigated in recent years for allegedly refusing inmates medication to help manage mental illness, failing to properly monitor them or ignoring cries for help.
Dane Shikman, Gaunt’s son, says his mother should have been taken to a mental health center, not jail. In Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 35-year-old Janene Wallace, who suffered from mental illness and paranoia, was in jail for a probation violation and held in solitary 51 of 52 days. She was locked up 23 hours a day at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility. When she threatened to choke herself in 2015, a guard told her to go ahead. She did. The guard went to lunch without checking on her and was among three workers fired.
In Utah, 25-year-old Tanna Jo Fillmore had long struggled with mental illness. Medication had stabilized her, but a lawsuit claims a nurse at the Duchesne County Jail refused to provide her pills. Fillmore had been jailed on a probation violation for apparently not providing a change of address. On Thanksgiving 2016, she hanged herself in her cell.
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