ProPublica: When Sydney Jones arrived at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto during a mental health crisis, her family assumed she would soon receive treatment. Instead, the hospital sent her to jail, though she was charged with no crime. www.propublica.org/article/bapt...

When Sydney Jones arrived at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto during a mental health crisis, her family assumed she would soon receive treatment. Instead, the hospital sent her to jail, though she was charged with no crime. www.propublica.org/article/bapt...

Many psychiatric hospitals are basically jails- absolutely no mental health services inside whatsoever. Holding centers paid by beds filled.

Psychiatrist here. This is monstrous.

Just when I think our terrible health care system can't surprise me anymore, it finds a way.

Mississippi is just a suck ass place.

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