{"id":42644,"date":"2014-02-17T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/richland_county_s-c-_sheriff_leon_lott-mistreating_mentally_ill_inmates_en\/"},"modified":"2014-02-17T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T23:30:20","slug":"richland_county_s-c-_sheriff_leon_lott-mistreating_mentally_ill_inmates_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42644","title":{"rendered":"Richland County  S.C. Sheriff Leon Lott&#8211;Mistreating mentally ill inmates endangers public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, an escaped mentally ill inmate was walking down the street, blocking traffic. I stopped, and the next thing I knew he started accusing me of killing his mother. Then he attacked me. Fortunately, I was able to subdue him, and we returned him to prison.<\/p>\n<p>Mental illness is not a crime, and the vast majority of people with mental illness are not dangerous. People whose mental illness goes untreated, however, may become dangerous. Tragic headlines around the country too often provide evidence of that fact.<\/p>\n<p>It is against this background that S.C. Circuit Judge Michael Baxley recently found that mentally ill inmates in S.C. prisons receive grossly inadequate treatment. His 45-page order sets forth in shocking detail the deficiencies in the Department of Corrections\u2019 mental health system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/02\/16\/3267184\/leon-lott-mistreating-mentally.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, an escaped mentally ill inmate was walking down the street, blocking traffic. I stopped, and the next thing I knew he started accusing me of killing his mother. Then he attacked me. Fortunately, I was able to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42644\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,175,615,168,114,602,151,102,129,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-city-government","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-mental-illness","category-politics-in-general","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-psychology","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}