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Communing with the angels in the Dallas jail

If you need evidence that the legal system doesn't really know how to accommodate voice hearing defendants, look no further than delays in a routine misdemeanor case that have stranded a mentally ill inmate for months in the Dallas County Jail on minor charges, as reported in the Dallas News ("For mentally ill man, 45 days stretches into 6 months," March 20): Nicholas Sauve says he talks to angels in his Dallas County Jail cell. The severely schizophrenic man has had months alone to do so. Arrested for shoving his mother against a car, he was sentenced in September to 45 days in jail. Six months have passed. He is still in a cell in the West Tower Jail. During a jailhouse interview last week, he drummed his long, dirty fingernails against his nose and cheek and questioned why he couldn't go home...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).