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It's an uphill battle. I went to a 40 hour Crisis Intervention course for my agency and it was very informative, but some people I work with just aren't willing to function on that level. Even some nursing staff at the jail have an incredibly hard time dealing with our mentally ill inmates and say extremely stupid things like "He's not crazy, he just needs to shut up and lay down".

Our agency then overhauled our use of force paperwork for CIT trained officers to identify what mental illness the person was exhibiting and now we have officers with 40 hours of training going around saying someone's bipolar on official documents.

I feel like it's putting lipstick on a pig sometimes, but it's getting better.

Not the OP, but I worked for the FLDOC for 5 years and currently work for my local sheriff's office. I feel that the prison industrial complex concept is over exaggerated to portray the whole prison system as a means to generate cash when the money is not being made specifically by state DOC's and government but rather by the contractors and lobbyists that are allowed to sponge off the system.

I am very much against private prisons and against allowing people to make such a huge profit off of a system that bleeds money from taxpayers.

He said he was extradited from New York to LA. Turns out those 2013 charges were for three misdemeanors that were dropped.

They extradited him by plane - one of the most expensive ways - for misdemeanors? He's full of shit - his courthouse was the LAX courthouse.

My wife has worked for a mental health agency in Florida for almost ten years. The social support for the mentally ill in Florida is abysmal. It's underfunded and the cultural consensus is that it's a waste to help people.

I work for a Sheriff's Office in the Tampa area, but I am from Massachusetts originally. My personal opinion is that he's better off in New York. I see a lot of adults in my jail who are languishing in the system because they have no support from their family or community. It's very, very easy to get arrested here if you're mentally ill and very, very hard to get help if you don't have extremely strong support from friends and family.

He never actually went to Rikers. Just like he never actually went to the LA County Jail. He was arrested in those counties and spent time being booked in satellite facilities in their holding areas.

The charges in 2013 in New York were in upstate New York and he bonded out of the Boome County jail - he wasn't extradited from Rikers. The charges in LA in 2013 were three misdemeanors (domestic battery and two vandalism charges), definitely not something you extradite by plane over. He has a CDCR number from a 2008 charge and the eval is for felony probation that was supervised by the CDCR.

Public records are a bitch.