{"id":3201,"date":"2023-01-03T06:32:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:20:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:20:27","slug":"in-county-jails-guards-use-pepper-spray-and-stun-guns-to-subdue-people-in-mental-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"In county jails, guards use pepper spray and stun guns to subdue people in mental crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When police arrived on the scene, they found Ishmail Thompson standing naked outside a hotel near Harrisburg, Pa., after he had just punched a man. After they arrested him, a mental health specialist at the county jail said Thompson should be sent to the hospital for psychiatric care.<br \/>\nHowever, after a few hours at the hospital, a doctor cleared Thompson to return to jail. With that decision, he went from being a mental health patient to a Dauphin County Prison inmate. Now he was expected to comply with orders \u2014 or be forced to.<br \/>\nThompson soon would be locked in a physical struggle with corrections officers \u2014 one of 5,144 such &#8220;use of force&#8221; incidents that occurred in 2021 inside Pennsylvania county jails.<br \/>\nAn investigation by\u00a0WITF\u00a0and NPR looked at 456 of those incidents from 25 county jails in Pennsylvania, during the last quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/01\/02\/1137208190\/in-county-jails-guards-use-pepper-spray-and-stun-guns-to-subdue-people-in-mental\">Npr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When police arrived on the scene, they found Ishmail Thompson standing naked outside a hotel near Harrisburg, Pa., after he had just punched a man. After they arrested him, a mental health specialist at the county jail said Thompson should be sent to the hospital for psychiatric care. However, after a few hours at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1520,3339,3335,1255,3338,3151,3337,3340,3336],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-hospitals","tag-incidents-of-violence","tag-mental-patients","tag-people","tag-pepper-spray","tag-prison","tag-prison-guards","tag-stun-guns","tag-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7561,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/7561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}