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www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-jamycheal-mitchell-dies-jail-20150829-story.html

Man jailed for four months for theft of pop, candy bar dies in Virginia cell.

(And the folks who trashed our economic system for profit walked away with $million bonuses)
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A forensic psychologist evaluated Mitchell to determine whether he was competent to stand trial. The psychologist said Mitchell was "manic and psychotic" during the interview. "Mr. Mitchell's thought processes were so confused that only snippets of his sentences could be understood, the rest were mumbled statements that made no rational sense," wrote Evan Nelson.

Mitchell twirled around the visitation cell, rapped, spit on the floor and exposed himself, Nelson wrote.

Another court document for a mental health evaluation dated 2010 described Mitchell as "acutely psychotic." Later that year, an evaluator wrote to the court that Mitchell was "unrestorably incompetent to stand trial" on a charge of petty larceny and recommended the case be dismissed, with continuing outpatient treatment.

In his assessment, Nelson said he had previously evaluated Mitchell when he was 17. He seemed manic and hyperactive then, too.

"The court is urged to commit Mitchell... for inpatient treatment to restore his competency," Nelson wrote.

On May 21, General District Court Judge Morton Whitlow found Mitchell incompetent to stand trial and ordered him transferred to Eastern State Hospital in the care of "qualified staff."

He never made it. Perry, the master jailer, said Mitchell was awaiting transfer at the time of his death because the hospital had no room for him.



Sounds like you want to blame the prison system when you should really be blaming Obama Care.
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Very sad. This poor guy was killed by the same incompetence that pervades VA clinics and many other "civil service" bureaucracies.....low level, incompetent "workers" who drift through their days making life-altering decisions with a casual, almost frightening indifference. These people are largely a protected class, insulated by strong labor (and other) unions and ridiculously one-sided contracts. Punishment for their incompetence and even their criminal misdeeds is routinely projected upward, with mid- and upper-level management taking the heat while the person who actually is "responsible" for the screw-up is not even considered to be a problem ...and, indeed, is also sometimes portrayed as a victim. This mindset sometimes spills over into the corporate world, the BP oil spill being an example.

Was the cop wrong in arresting the guy for theft? No. That was his job. He was hired to do exactly that. It is not his job, in a cumbersome, bureaucratic society to judge the perp, nor do we really want it to be his job.

But there was a judge who did address the guy's problems, and it appears that he did the right thing:

"On May 21, General District Court Judge Morton Whitlow found Mitchell incompetent to stand trial and ordered him transferred to Eastern State Hospital in the care of "qualified staff."

He never made it. Perry, the master jailer, said Mitchell was awaiting transfer at the time of his death because the hospital had no room for him."


I wonder why there was no room in the hospital. Some folks might say "build a bigger hospital". Others might say "do a better job in the hospitals". Who knows the answer there?

But, in the end, bureaucratic incompetence seems to be the cause of death. (Maybe an incompetent public defender, too).

"The Guardian news organization in Britain, which broke the story, quoted Mitchell's relatives as saying they believe he starved to death after refusing to eat or take medication for his mental illness. (Mitchell's aunt) told the Guardian that family members were unable to visit him because he never filled out an official list of visitors".

Curiously, they didn't seem to have a problem getting him to sign a form waiving his right to representation.

But, maybe if the arresting officer or the judge, at his first appearance, had a list of crazy people.....

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A forensic psychologist evaluated Mitchell to determine whether he was competent to stand trial. The psychologist said Mitchell was "manic and psychotic" during the interview. "Mr. Mitchell's thought processes were so confused that only snippets of his sentences could be understood, the rest were mumbled statements that made no rational sense," wrote Evan Nelson.

Mitchell twirled around the visitation cell, rapped, spit on the floor and exposed himself, Nelson wrote.

Another court document for a mental health evaluation dated 2010 described Mitchell as "acutely psychotic." Later that year, an evaluator wrote to the court that Mitchell was "unrestorably incompetent to stand trial" on a charge of petty larceny and recommended the case be dismissed, with continuing outpatient treatment.

In his assessment, Nelson said he had previously evaluated Mitchell when he was 17. He seemed manic and hyperactive then, too.

"The court is urged to commit Mitchell... for inpatient treatment to restore his competency," Nelson wrote.

On May 21, General District Court Judge Morton Whitlow found Mitchell incompetent to stand trial and ordered him transferred to Eastern State Hospital in the care of "qualified staff."

He never made it. Perry, the master jailer, said Mitchell was awaiting transfer at the time of his death because the hospital had no room for him.



Sounds like you want to blame the prison system when you should really be blaming Obama Care.



Yeah didn't see that one coming...:S:S:S.

Thanks Obama...

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