{"id":29729,"date":"2022-03-15T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/mental-illness-in-prisons-goes-untreated-resulting-in-deaths\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:10:19","slug":"mental-illness-in-prisons-goes-untreated-resulting-in-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/mental-illness-in-prisons-goes-untreated-resulting-in-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental illness in prisons goes untreated, resulting in deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Death of Kentucky inmate Marcus Penman now under investigation\">\n<div class=\"gnt_em_vp_w\" data-g-r=\"vp_tp\" data-c-vt=\"teal\" data-t-pl=\"teal-hero\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{&quot;muted&quot;:false,&quot;xprp&quot;:1,&quot;bContent&quot;:false,&quot;an&quot;:&quot;usatoday&quot;,&quot;pn&quot;:&quot;USA TODAY&quot;,&quot;vidNum&quot;:0}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{&quot;adsEnabled&quot;:true,&quot;awsPath&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;byline&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;canonicalURL&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;contentSourceCode&quot;:&quot;USAT&quot;,&quot;createDate&quot;:&quot;2022-03-14T09:59:02Z&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;USA TODAY&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:100000,&quot;headline&quot;:&quot;Death of Kentucky inmate Marcus Penman now under investigation&quot;,&quot;hlsURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/bb77dc60-8e26-4093-85d1-c93519d85422\/04813399-02e4-4f03-a454-bf4771fb1552\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8?subtitles=6796982001&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;6796982001&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/02\/15\/USAT\/2de9ecbc-8766-40c8-b72a-3a6f9edf8285-warning_slate_thumb.png&quot;,&quot;opto&quot;:true},&quot;initialPublishDate&quot;:&quot;2022-03-14T09:59:02Z&quot;,&quot;keywords&quot;:&quot;Death Investigations,Overall Positive,Overall Negative,Death and Dying&quot;,&quot;mp4URL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/bb77dc60-8e26-4093-85d1-c93519d85422\/04813399-02e4-4f03-a454-bf4771fb1552\/1080p_30fps.mp4&quot;,&quot;origin&quot;:&quot;USA TODAY&quot;,&quot;pageURL&quot;:{&quot;long&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/2022\/03\/14\/prison-video-shows-inmate-marcus-penman-moments-before-his-death\/6796982001\/&quot;},&quot;promoBrief&quot;:&quot;Prison video shows Penman during what appears to have been a mental health episode. His death is now under investigation. (Warning: Graphic content)&quot;,&quot;propertyName&quot;:&quot;USATODAY&quot;,&quot;publishDate&quot;:&quot;2022-03-14T09:59:02Z&quot;,&quot;series&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;ssts&quot;:{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;subsection&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;topic&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;subtopic&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;tags&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;90c7e8d5-ee82-4da9-89c0-a0677f4854f4&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Death Investigations&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;7095bb07-b172-434b-a4eb-8856263ad949&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Overall Positive&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;987bb855-cc8e-4ce9-9335-08fbba5e6fa6&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Overall Negative&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;7d428e7c-b55e-4ae9-b01e-bd978c7c24b4&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Death and Dying&quot;}],&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Prison video shows inmate, Marcus Penman, moments before his death.&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;\/videos\/news\/2022\/03\/14\/prison-video-shows-inmate-marcus-penman-moments-before-his-death\/6796982001\/&quot;}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/02\/15\/USAT\/2de9ecbc-8766-40c8-b72a-3a6f9edf8285-warning_slate_thumb.png?width=660&amp;height=371&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" elementtiming=\"ar-lead-image\" decoding=\"async\"\/><svg class=\"gnt_em_vp_svg\"><use xlink:href=\"#gnt_svg_video_play\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As Marcus Penman\u00a0slammed his head against a cell door while suffering a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/story\/news\/2019\/06\/18\/inmate-suicide-us-jails-fail-stop-deaths-investigation-reveals\/1486534001\/\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">mental health episode<\/a>,\u00a0not one Kentucky state prison guard tried <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/story\/news\/investigations\/2021\/11\/30\/lawsuit-mentally-ill-man-should-not-have-died-indiana-prison\/8797782002\/\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">calming him down<\/a>. And no mental health care provider was\u00a0called to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/story\/opinion\/2016\/08\/14\/mitchell-jamycheal-dead-jail-black-hampton-video-mentally-ill-starved-column\/88529914\/\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">deescalate the crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Instead, a 40-minute<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>video\u00a0obtained by USA TODAY showed a detention officer pepper-spray Penman three times in\u00a0the face, then tase him\u00a0six times \u2013\u00a0including with an\u00a0electric shock that lasted 18 seconds. A team of six officers \u2013 none of whom had any extraction training \u2013\u00a0dragged Penman out of his cell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/03\/14\/mental-illness-prisons-goes-untreated-resulting-deaths-lawsuit\/9306870002\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As Marcus Penman\u00a0slammed his head against a cell door while suffering a mental health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}