To: President Donald Trump
STOP CRIMINALIZING MENTAL ILLNESS IN NEW ORLEANS
Quoting a Orleans Parish Prison representative April 2015, "People with mental illness are not brought to the hospital anymore in Orleans Parish, they bring them straight to jail, we see it everyday, we have no place to put them but Tent City and the general population" .
Why is this important?
Governor Bobbi Jindal continues to close mental health facilities statewide, thus, fueling the mental health crisis since Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Criminalizing people with mental illness is dehumanizing and traumatizing.
On behalf of People with Disabilities (PwD), let your voice be their voice, please sign the petition and join me in asking President Barack Obama to "Stop the Criminalization of Mental Illness in New Orleans"
On behalf of People with Disabilities (PwD), let your voice be their voice, please sign the petition and join me in asking President Barack Obama to "Stop the Criminalization of Mental Illness in New Orleans"