Screenshot from animation showing an inmate in orange suit painting in the air with a brush a yellow and violet comet like shape.

🟣🟡 Life Inside, Remixed: An Incarcerated Artist Learns to Paint Through the Chaos of Prison
by The Marshall Project
Essay, animated by Lily Padula and K Downs and voiced by Rafael Rodriguez
#Justice #CriminalSystem #short #film #animation

www.themarshallproject.org/2024/11/01/a...

Austin State Hospital Reopens This Summer Texas overhauls psychiatric system aiming to free up jails

“[...]many of these people do not need to be in[patient],” and [...]when patients sit in an ER for 24 hours+ waiting for state bed to open, it costs local hospitals & law enforcement more."
#CriminalSystem #MentalHealth #PublicPolicy #CourtDiversion
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-05...