Letter: Concerned over son’s condition (June 28)
Don’t get stopped or need help in Madera County.
Recently, my son was arrested and confined in Madera County jail. I made the original call to the sheriff’s department to ask for their help.
After two weeks in solitary confinement it was determined he was in need of some form of medicine and care. He was ordered by a local judge to be transferred to a facility which deals with this type of behavior.
Every two weeks he is back in court to see why he hasn’t been transferred. He has been in confinement since February, with one delay after another, with no one agency or person to get direct answers from.
His condition and mental state have deteriorated because of not obtaining the right conditions and medicines he would receive in the facility he was assigned to.
I must admit the sheriff’s department was good at racking him up on many charges so it becomes more criminal than mental, so he becomes locked in jails rather than getting the help he needs to be active as before at his age of 23.
Again, I say, don’t get caught up in this town; it could happen to you.
Thomas Underwood,
Madera
