I think you're missing the whole point of the need for changes in the way young people, low-offenders, first-time offenders, vulnerable people, impaired people and people with disabilities are taken into custody. There is no reason whatsoever why people who are arrested on misdemeanor charges should die from "institutional shock," and a lack of medical care that clearly amounts to negligent homicide. This is clearly a basic human-rights violation, that amounts to "cruel and unusual punishment" which is a violation of the 8th and 14th amendments, and in this case the death of an innocent teen:
"Negligent homicide is a much lower intent crime and is used as a charge when one person causes the death of another through criminal negligence. The charge does not involve premeditation, but focuses on what the defendant should have known and the risks associated with what he did know." (https://criminal-law.freeadvice.com)
From WDRB.com: (Feb. 2nd, 2018; Jason Riley):
"The video allegedly shows staffers eating Gynnya’s food, leaving her lying in the same position for 10 hours without doing a close examination and failing to immediately provide CPR when they learned she was not breathing.
The lawsuit accuses Lincoln Village employees of using “martial arts restraint techniques” on Gynnya prior to putting her into an isolation cell, “unmonitored and without medical care, for hours leading to her death from a cardiac event,” according to the new documents.
In the minutes before she died, McMillen coughed a few times and seized in an "uncontrolled manner," while a guard watched, according to the federal lawsuit.
Former supervisor Reginald Windham, according to the lawsuit, said he checked on Gynnya "to make sure she had not thrown up and was choking or something like that." He looked through her cell door at 11:39 p.m. for 18 seconds, watching "her last gasps and dying breaths and final uncontrollable movements and seizure," the suit claims."
I don't think the autopsy is conclusive proof as to how she died, just like in the Sandra Bland case, considering the behavior of the supervisors, who ate her food and watched her choke to death. That in itself meets the above definition of "negligent homicide." Who performed the autopsy? A prison physician? An independent examiner? Federal? State? City? They have total control over food intake and could easily have given her something to induce cardiac arrest.
You can't take people who have grown up in the New Millenium and put them in a 1600's-type solitary confinement. That in itself amounts to "cruel and unusual Punishment," which can cause permanent emotional and psychological impairments including PTSD. This is proven by sociological and psychological studies. So now there is empirical proof of liability for inflicting such harm, that would leave the institution financially liable and liable for many years of counseling and recovery, if not a lifetime. Institutionalization is also a verifiable condition that can permanently psychologically harm individuals who are non-violent offenders, which also carries with it full liability for the perpetrators of abuses of civil authority.
Institutions are there to protect society. Not put vulnerable non-violent and low-offenders to death through criminal negligence. These people need to be put in a transition-area where there is 24-hour medical supervision, that is a cross-over from normal life to a confinement environment to evaluate people for medical issues and psychological issues, as well as dangerous detox issues, to prevent the kind of "institutional shock" that killed Sandra Bland. It's not just women and teens. Healthy athletes have become victims of "institutional shock," after short periods of time.
This is why a "shake-down," literally, is coming to modern reform systems.
They amount to prisoner-of-war camps;
When non-violent, vulnerable people die, it amounts to crimes against humanity.
This is not the 17th century; It's the 21st century.
One solution would be for Federal troops to take control of prisons, and be rotated weekly or monthly. That would provide independent and objective oversight and break the cycle of closed, controlled insider oversight, until permanent reforms can be implemented.
"Negligent homicide is a much lower intent crime and is used as a charge when one person causes the death of another through criminal negligence. The charge does not involve premeditation, but focuses on what the defendant should have known and the risks associated with what he did know." (https://criminal-law.freeadvice.com)
From WDRB.com: (Feb. 2nd, 2018; Jason Riley):
"The video allegedly shows staffers eating Gynnya’s food, leaving her lying in the same position for 10 hours without doing a close examination and failing to immediately provide CPR when they learned she was not breathing.
The lawsuit accuses Lincoln Village employees of using “martial arts restraint techniques” on Gynnya prior to putting her into an isolation cell, “unmonitored and without medical care, for hours leading to her death from a cardiac event,” according to the new documents.
In the minutes before she died, McMillen coughed a few times and seized in an "uncontrolled manner," while a guard watched, according to the federal lawsuit.
Former supervisor Reginald Windham, according to the lawsuit, said he checked on Gynnya "to make sure she had not thrown up and was choking or something like that." He looked through her cell door at 11:39 p.m. for 18 seconds, watching "her last gasps and dying breaths and final uncontrollable movements and seizure," the suit claims."
I don't think the autopsy is conclusive proof as to how she died, just like in the Sandra Bland case, considering the behavior of the supervisors, who ate her food and watched her choke to death. That in itself meets the above definition of "negligent homicide." Who performed the autopsy? A prison physician? An independent examiner? Federal? State? City? They have total control over food intake and could easily have given her something to induce cardiac arrest.
You can't take people who have grown up in the New Millenium and put them in a 1600's-type solitary confinement. That in itself amounts to "cruel and unusual Punishment," which can cause permanent emotional and psychological impairments including PTSD. This is proven by sociological and psychological studies. So now there is empirical proof of liability for inflicting such harm, that would leave the institution financially liable and liable for many years of counseling and recovery, if not a lifetime. Institutionalization is also a verifiable condition that can permanently psychologically harm individuals who are non-violent offenders, which also carries with it full liability for the perpetrators of abuses of civil authority.
Institutions are there to protect society. Not put vulnerable non-violent and low-offenders to death through criminal negligence. These people need to be put in a transition-area where there is 24-hour medical supervision, that is a cross-over from normal life to a confinement environment to evaluate people for medical issues and psychological issues, as well as dangerous detox issues, to prevent the kind of "institutional shock" that killed Sandra Bland. It's not just women and teens. Healthy athletes have become victims of "institutional shock," after short periods of time.
This is why a "shake-down," literally, is coming to modern reform systems.
They amount to prisoner-of-war camps;
When non-violent, vulnerable people die, it amounts to crimes against humanity.
This is not the 17th century; It's the 21st century.
One solution would be for Federal troops to take control of prisons, and be rotated weekly or monthly. That would provide independent and objective oversight and break the cycle of closed, controlled insider oversight, until permanent reforms can be implemented.
Isaiah 58:5-7
True worship is to work for justice and care for the poor and oppressed.