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Huffington Post
Disabled Black Lives Matter

Here we've seen the perfect storm of race, poverty, and mental disability.  This tragic case represents the worst of America's criminal justice system.  Mitchell's pattern of petty theft was a symptom of his chronic and severe illness and disabilities.

What does America do with her sickest, poorest, and most marginalized?  

The largest populations in our jails and prisons are people with disabilities, people of color, and people living in poverty.

Disabled Black Lives Matter.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-griffith-lund/disabled-black-lives-matt_b_8061040.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Orchid's Take:
        Historians are NOT going to be kind to what currently passes for mental health care & the criminal justice system in the US and Colorado, especially given our current knowledge.
         But we live NOW and the condemnation of historians is cold comfort to the thousands who are suffering NOW.
         Colorado does piecemeal good deeds, AND it just can't bring itself to comply with the law.  

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