19 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and destroyed its charity mental health ward, the state's jail has filled its void. NBC News' Anthonia Hylton visits one of the most notorious jails in the nation that began a program aimed to help pre-trial inmates with their mental health.
NEW ORLEANS — In June, 18-year-old Marvell Smith arrived at the Orleans Justice Center, anxious and overwhelmed, to await his day in trial in the notorious jail. Staff brought him up on an elevator to the fourth floor and placed him in a unit with more than four dozen other men. Almost immediately, another detainee began stalking Smith, he said, trying to physically and verbally intimidate him for being gay.
In areas where you don’t have those systems in place. The jail is the de facto mental health system. And that is so wrong.” Hutson, whose own brother had PTSD after serving in the Navy, said her dream would be for her jail to be replaced by treatment and prevention programs. “I don’t want a mental health jail,” she said. “I want a mental health facility.” Lawmakers in her state are moving in the opposite direction, however, leaving Sheriff Hutson to swim upstream.
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