Black Lives Matter co-founder launches CancelMcCarthyContract campaign to call on U.S. to stop building jail 'death traps'
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors is launching a new campaign calling on Los Angeles County officials to cancel a contract with McCarthy Building Companies, a prison-building contractor, to replace a men's jail with a new mental health hospital for inmates.
On Wednesday, Khan-Cullors and others will also be formally launching their call for L.A. County officials to cancel plans to build a new mental health hospital underArguing that the facility will only put inmates with mental health issues in further peril, Khan-Cullors pointed to the embattled California Health Care Facility in Stockton, which was built by McCarthy and which was the subject of a scathing report last year on poor mental health management at the facility.
"I feel very, very badly for the people of Stockton who have to deal with this behemoth of a building in their community," she continued."People with mental illness are not being treated the way they should be, not receiving the care they should be." Currently, Khan-Cullors said, the way that people with mental health issues are treated within the criminal justice system"is backwards and inhumane."
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