Tag: Locked Away Post-Infraction

Denied care led to violence, and the person ended up in custody — jail, prison, psychiatric hospital, or forensic commitment — as a direct consequence of untreated illness and the infraction that followed. The system failed to treat. The person, unmedicated and acutely symptomatic, committed violence (or posed imminent danger sufficient to trigger arrest or commitment). The outcome was custodial placement: locked away in a criminal or psychiatric system because the civil mental health system had already failed. This tag documents the full causal chain: untreated illness → violence → locked custody, naming the point at which prevention was still possible but the system chose not to act.