In Garfield County Jail, Money Equals Treatment?
Winning this week’s award for worst handling of the incarcerated mentally ill, Garfield County, Colorado, is being sued by the ACLU for denying treatment to inmates with serious mental problems if the prisoners didn’t have enough $ in their jail accounts, according to Channel 9 News. Then when the inmates (predictably) acted out, the Garfield County folks strapped them into restraint chairs. Lovely.
