Comments on: Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons http://jennackerman.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/360/ Documentary Photography, Multimedia and Public Perception Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Amanda http://jennackerman.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/360/#comment-1301 Amanda Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:05:14 +0000 http://jennackerman.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/360/#comment-1301 Excellent work. I was really impressed with all of it – the story, the photos and especially the multimedia. Steve Remich sent me a link to your Web site after he read a story I wrote for the Jackson Hole paper about a mentally retarded man who couldn't get help for his urges because he is a sex offender and there are no treatment centers in Wyoming. Eventually, he made enough noise that the police conducted a sting operation and arrested hem. He got 35- 50 years, at least twice as long as any sentence I've seen from this court in a year and a half. Even the judge said the system failed this guy. Your story really put mine in perspective for me. I don't think much abut the prison system. And I'm a cops and courts reporter. Most people probably don't think about it at all. Your project is really mazing and I'm glad I got to see it. -Amanda Miller Link to my story http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=3205 Excellent work. I was really impressed with all of it – the story, the photos and especially the multimedia.

Steve Remich sent me a link to your Web site after he read a story I wrote for the Jackson Hole paper about a mentally retarded man who couldn’t get help for his urges because he is a sex offender and there are no treatment centers in Wyoming. Eventually, he made enough noise that the police conducted a sting operation and arrested hem. He got 35- 50 years, at least twice as long as any sentence I’ve seen from this court in a year and a half. Even the judge said the system failed this guy.

Your story really put mine in perspective for me. I don’t think much abut the prison system. And I’m a cops and courts reporter. Most people probably don’t think about it at all. Your project is really mazing and I’m glad I got to see it.

-Amanda Miller

Link to my story
http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=3205

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