"...Center (TAC) found that there were "three times more
seriously mentally ill persons in jails and prisons
than in hospitals." Sheriffs' associations estimate that
the mentally ill make up over a quarter of inmates in
their jails. According to E. Fuller Torrey, the founder
of TAC, the Los Angeles County Jail has become the
largest de facto inpatient psychiatric facility in the
United States. Rikers Island is the second-largest..."
http://city-journal.org/mobile/story.php?s=10551
THIS BEGAN as a prayer site for our prisoners in general, but I am also adding "death row" prisoners in specific..after hearing a few stories about persons on death row wrongly convicted.., and also about "zealous prosecutors" not concerned about false convictions..but simply getting convictions, true or false. Let us remain conscientious about false convictions, zealous prosecutors, and all things related; as well as care & prayer for those who were rightly convicted.
