Jail n ASD

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I think restraining ASD can cause claustrophobia, can be times where person needs space or impulses.
Point is this young man would be alive if he had being sent to health care institution and not a jail. He was in jail for less serious crime affirms he wasn't supposed to be in jail.

Last edited by Cornflake on 09 Feb 2025, 9:49 am, edited 1 time in total.: Added spoiler tags and warning

This is another case of 10 year old arrested, detained. Should boy have being sent to mental health care centre for 72hrs observation?
As a mom I wonder what event of inclusion at school could trigger my son with autism, I've already noted on social scale that inclusion at schools doesn't really work. At least hospital has padded cells and certainly be better.

Even on here we have posters who act like recommending cases like these get appropriate care instead of just going to prison like anyone else is the 'using autism to get out of jail card'.

Unfortunately that poster hasn't posted since early January, so you might not get to debate the issue with someone with an opposing view.

Last edited by funeralxempire on 08 Feb 2025, 10:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes. This absolutely.

This really bothers me, almost to tears. The emotions pouring out of him are horrible, agonizing, and unnecessary. This was, from what I understand, a welfare check gone horribly wrong when they found an outstanding warrant from a wellness check a year before, which him and his family didn’t know about, and arrested. Police absolutely should never be the only and primary responder to a mental health welfare check, unfortunately our current system in America has it that way. It appears to me by how they treated him that the untrained and abusive jail guards assumed that Isaiah was meth user and never even considered or cared if there was any other mental health reason or a crisis.

Jail is not a nice place, usually a 6' x 9' or 6' x 12' concrete and steel box. They shove you in the cell and slam the door shut, leaving you to deal with feeling trapped and alone in a hostile place. The anxiety levels in a jail like that are always constantly extremely high for everyone, but for ASD people it can be even worse. They are always bright and loud with no way to escape the chaos, which can cause our anxiety to spiral into a meltdown as we see here. The guards all assume he did something to deserve being there and thus doesn't truly deserve to be treated with respect or as an equal.

I would love to have their smug behinds strapped in one of those chairs until they mentally break. I've seen a guard get accidently locked in a cell once, it was awesome to see the panic in his eyes when he realized he wasn't in control and was trapped and he was only stuck in there for a few minutes.

The crazies are running the jails...maybe a Autist ID card might have helped , but the mentality of the Police, is almost strictly a US or them thought process....Medical assessment should be part of a normal Arrest process if any person is going to be turned into a inmate . Jail or Prison .... . IMHO ..... Torture of anyone in Police custody , i believe should be met with the highest of Legal Reprocussions

100% agreement.