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Tarrant County. Mentally ill but competent to stand trial. I’m sure there’s more than one. Source: 1 year in lockup (solitary) with them, often criminal trespass or public urination charges.


> Source: 1 year in lockup (solitary) with them

As someone whose main knowledge of the US prison system is only from TV and not from first person (thankfully), I think I don't understand what "solitary" is. I thought the whole point of it was that the detained person didn't have contact with others?


Not sure what you mean. Are you referring to a specific case?


This person's source is someone they spent a year in jail with.

Cases this small probably don't get articles written about them often. That's why we have the phrase "falling through the cracks"


I do not think that this person is… all there: https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/when-a-gypsy-woman-loses-he...




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