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- Category: Family report discounted
- Tags: Homelessness, Locked Away Post-Infraction, Revolving Door, Severe Deterioration
- States: NY
Evidence: a mother's two decades of discounted warnings — no psychiatric bed, no housing until homeless, and treatment only through probation.
- Category: Family report discounted
- Tags: Death, Locked Away Post-Infraction
- States: NJ
When parents sought psychiatric help for their son in crisis, systemic failures prevented proper intervention. Hours later, both were killed.
- Category: Safety Standard not met
- Tags: Death
- States: CA
Irma Perez Espinoza. 43 years old. Sat in a drainage ditch with no food or water. Not important enough to help.
- Category: Safety Standard not met
- Tags: Death, Homelessness, Locked Away Post-Infraction, Revolving Door, Severe Deterioration
- States: NC
A man in psychosis asked for help and was arrested. Now, charged with murder, he'll finally receive treatment — to make him competent enough to be tried, and possibly executed.
- Category: Refusal treated as capacity
- Tags: Locked Away Post-Infraction, Revolving Door, Severe Deterioration
- States: CA
June Dudas spent forty years trying to get her cousin Ed treatment for schizophrenia. When she turned to CARE Court — built to compel care — it was dismissed twice. The reason: anosognosia.
- Category: Safety Standard not met
- Tags: Death, Locked Away Post-Infraction, Severe Deterioration
- States: ME
Untreated psychosis met criteria for intervention and yet care was denied. Armando Negrete deserved better. So did Marlene McNeill.