....in a Dallas jail cell.
I found an interesting editorial in the Texas blog, Grits for Breakfast. While the specific person who wrote this article is not identified, I believe the author has good credibility. A man with a mental illness was arrested for assault against his mother and was sentenced to 45 days in county jail. His mother insisted that he needed to be in a mental hospital rather than a jail. Instead, the 28 year old man spent over six months in a Dallas jail waiting for our court system to find a place to put him.
The author is not completely one-sided, he tells the reader both sides of the story. Although he lets his opinion be known, he leaves it to the reader to develop their own opinion of the story. The author provides several links throughout his editorial to different websites that further explain the facts. He also provides links that lead to other editorials that have been written on the same story that go into even deeper detail of what the judge, the man's mother, the man himself, as well as several other people had to say about the case. He even went the extra mile and told the reader about the man's family history and how his father and grandfather heard voices as well. All in all, I think this is a very well written editorial.
6 years ago
