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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where is the responsibility of the judge who had her held for 6 months when she was gravely mentally ill?

An article from March explains, "In September, Michel experienced a “significant mental health  episode” in Charleroi, which is an hour away from Pittsburg.  A neighbor called the police and she was taken to the county jail, where she was held on misdemeanor charges for six months. Neither she nor her brother, Carlo, could afford the $10,000 bound."

And what happened after 6 months? She was NOT charged with anything. The charges were dismissed.

And where is that court's responsibility since they released her after she had been held for 6 months because she was so gravely mentally ill. Why wasn't sent to a psychiatric facility? She was able to call her brother to tell her she was getting released.

Another article says, "On March 1st, Jaime Martinez, an immigrant rights organizer with Frontline Dignity, began receiving phone calls from immigrant rights activists, who spotted her waiting in an alley on the South Side. The activists observed that Daphy had been waiting in the alley for nine hours on a cold March Day, but she repeatedly refused help.

The activists offered to pay for an Uber for her, but she refused and kept insisting a ride was coming. Eventually, she vanished, and the next day she was found unresponsive at the bus shelter on Smithfield and East Carson Street."
https://paydayreport.com/after-death-of-haitian-immigrant-daphy-michel-pittsburgh-activists-build-community/

So what ICE did was horrid. So yes ICE has accountabiltiy. However,  there should be some accountability of what happened before? Why is someone having a mental health crisis and yelling in the streets locked up for 6 months?[/quote]

She was held in jail because she was not psychiatrically sound to stand trial, and she wasn't able to post bail. Once she was in jail longer than any potential prison sentence for the crimes she was charged with, I hear there's no point holding her longer.

Are you curious why United States doesn't have compassionare inpatient psychiatric care for indigent people? [/quote]

Stop and think logically. Most likely she wasn't yelling in English but Haitian Creole, so how did anyone even know what she was yelling?  Finally a magistrate said he could charge her for threatening imaginary people. So all charges were dropped. Why did this take SIX months. Her preliminary hearing was delayed SEVEN times.

This was a low level misdemeanor. How much money did Washington County, PA waste jailing her for SIX months and having her undergo multiple psychiatric evaluations? The Washington County Jail (located in Washington, PA) is approximately 25 miles away from Charleroi, PA where she was arrested. When inmates get released they are not returned to where they are arrested. It is unclear if she would have been able to call home.

So yes ICE absolutely shouldn't have dumped her, but she was failed long before. This tragic case starts with being held for a seemingly sham non-violent misdemeanor for SIX months with no chance of making bail. [/quote]

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