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I saw this article on this sub and I think I would do Y’all a favor on commenting on the state of jails in this state: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article315997063.html

I know about the jails because I have a felony and have been back due to getting violated on probation. I just want to expand on interworking's of jail for anyone not familiar.

Currently, wake county jail has 2 jails. The detention center and the PSC. Both are overcrowded, they all have cots on the floor as they have no room to assign people on bunks anymore. When I got arrested in March for my probation violation they were holding people in the holding cells for several days, just eating bagged lunch and sitting sleeping on the floor no blankets and clothes because they had no beds/cots to bring people up to, everything was packed. CO's complained about the new Iryna's law. The jail is overcrowded about +200 people and they are trying to open up an old one but the end of the year which will only give them 250 beds and still won't fix the overcrowding issues many CO's think.

As far as mental health cause I think that was big component in the murder of Iryna. It's pretty much nonexistent in Wake County jail despite lots of people (especially mentally ill people) being released from the county jail. You speak to the therapist after you request for them and that will take 2 weeks, then if they fill the need to put you on meds you wait for the psychiatrist which can take 2 more weeks or a month sometimes. There pretty much zero good direction for reentry services in the county, they just direct you to WakeLRC when you get out.

They have two entire PC blocks which are mainly filled with mentally ill people, I have had to clean them as a worker on a previous sentence. These blocks have usually around 10 people in each one who have shit all over their cells. They shouldn't be in jail more like holly hill, they are regulars in the jail and any CO who works those blocks probably knows them by name as they come back for petty crimes all the time. Mentally ill people often make their way into general population if they can be sane enough in the holding cells and not cause many any of the other inmates direct problems. I have meet people several people in general pop who thought they were god or had the entire government out to get them. If your mental illness is apparent they just put you in PC (23/1 solitary confinement).

While people stay in jails for years fighting real crimes, a lot of people who are coming in especially regularly are just probation violations, trespassing, and possession. DUI and DV are a common one to but they usually stay out for a couple of years before getting rearrested.

Anyone who actually wants real help in wake county jail should go to prison as the resources the county provides you are basically nonexistent and mentally ill people don't ever make it to prison because their crimes are often petty, resulting in only a year at most…