Lisa Brown takes full responsibility for why she ended up briefly behind bars. But now she says a 20-day jail sentence has left her with a life sentence of partial paralysis and disability.

‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’

Imagine falling and breaking your neck, but no one takes you to the hospital right away.

That’s exactly what a local woman says happened to her inside the St. Clair County Jail and now she’s trying to make sure something like this doesn’t happen to anyone else.

Lisa Brown takes full responsibility for why she ended up briefly behind bars. But now she says a 20-day jail sentence has left her with a life sentence of partial paralysis and disability.

  • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    8 months ago

    Sorry to tell you, your close friend is already a bad person. Good people don’t volunteer to oppress people and deny their needs, especially after being told it’s going to make them worse.

    Something something the company you keep…

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      8 months ago

      He’s 21 with no education or skills. Here he gets offered a job that pays decently, has free training and has solid benefits, best thing he’s ever been offered.

      He has no idea what he’s getting into. And now that he’s into it, he’s succeeding and being lauded for once in his life, told he’s doing great, for once in his life.

      Take your judgement on down the road. I’m doing what I can for him.

      • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        8 months ago

        Oh, he’s doing a great job and getting rewarded for treating people badly? Fuck that