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| St. Louis jail system's longest-serving inmate illustrates mental health needs |
| By stltoday.com- Jesse Bogan |
| Published: 06/08/2015 |
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ST. LOUIS • Jail is supposed to be a temporary affair. If bail is too expensive, defendants are held until they are sent to prison, or freed. The average length of stay in St. Louis jails is 233 days. That includes people serving short-term sentences. Then there’s the rare case of 37-year-old Calvin D. Brown. Although he’s been convicted of a murder in which he nearly cut off his grandmother’s head, he still sits in the St. Louis City Justice Center downtown going on his seventh year. Brown illustrates how the wheels of justice are slowed when dealing with defendants who may have extreme mental illness. Multiple judges, attorneys and medical experts have been bogged down on a murky path forward for Brown, who has largely refused to cooperate along the way. Read More. |
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