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...going on on Wall Street," says Mayor James Wilson. "We've got to worry about what's going on on Main Street." And right now, Cairo's Main Street is like an open scar left over from the day in 1967 when a black man was found hanged in jail and the town blew wide open. At the turn of the century, Cairo had vied with Chicago and St. Louis to be the commercial capital of the Midwest, with money pouring in off the barges and trains that converged at this point, where the Ohio and the Mississippi conjoin...
...Chief Huff is still making room for townsfolk like Big Earl in his jail. Back in 1992, Big Earl was driving a car when the voices in his head told him the police were after him again. He rammed into a wall, pinning and killing a man. Last year he walked up to a utility repairman and threatened to kill him for no reason. Each time, Earl has come to the city jail to await an opening at the state mental hospital. Huff knows Earl by now and has compassion for him. He remembers how, when...
...Huff, "it's the police who get called to deal with it." And it's the police who will be a main target if the American Civil Liberties Union decides later this year to challenge a 25-year-old state law that allows mental patients to be kept in jail when no other place can be found for them...
...avoid parking any critically psychotic patients in jail, Gwen Turner, a retired chancery clerk and advocate for the mentally ill, proposed five years ago turning an empty downtown building into a crisis center where Natchez Regional Hospital doctors could volunteer to treat these patients. (The regional hospital won't accept them.) But she found little interest in her proposal...
...could not get any help," he says. "What about the average person who doesn't know anybody?" Thames produced the Mental Health Reform Act of 1997, which, along with subsequent legislation, promised to create seven regional crisis-intervention centers that would keep the mentally ill out of jail, closer to their relatives and not constantly on the road to Whitfield. But these probably won't open for two years. The new laws require communities to take more responsibility for improving their mental-health care, but there's no state budget...