Jackson Jambalaya

no way this guy is 48 years old...

This fool been wanting to be in jail. Three good meals, a matress, and HVAC. Way easier than being un-housed.

@2:26 Dont forget all of the crust-busting he could ever want!

"un-housed". Love it. Still gonna call these folks homeless bums.

So glad he has been caught.

You're right, he's 47

That's JPD for you!

Vagrants, bums, hobos, prowlers, criminals, but "unhoused,?" No.

His punishment would be much more severe in some other countries.

So sniffing carburetor cleaner causes premature aging - who knew?!?

Is that the same guy that tried to light Jackson Ice? I'm pretty sure the same person burned down the 2 or 3 buildings close to them as well. Jackistan was losing 1 or 2 structures a day over Christmas.

That address in Greenville is just down the block from Doe's Eat Place.

Luickily Doe's still standing but there's a blue house on the next block the other way which did burn pretty good!

Just goes to show you what a guy will do to get 3meals and a cot these days.

Is he wearing a clergy shirt?

Court rulings 50 years made it much harder to involuntarily commit and keep crazy folks. Many insane asylums closed or shrank. This is the result.

8:33 pm The legal ruling was in 1975 that a person must be a "danger to themselves or others" to be involuntarily committed.
It was trigger by Geraldo Rivera's "investigative reporting" on 20/20 about an insane asylum. Rivera overlooked that those he interviewed were on supervised medications and had help managing tasks they could not do on their own.

That ruling unfortunately included commitments for short term evaluations. Early intervention is critical for both the mentally ill and addicted. Indeed, with alcoholics, 21 days of "drying out" could result in months or years of earning money for themselves and their families between benders.

There were in those days, no doubt, some people hospitalized in corrupt counties where their family members had "clout" and wanted not to spend money on care or to take the money their relative had accumulated. But, sadly, the court had no "real world" understanding of mental illness or addiction and "threw out the baby with the bathwater". It is now financially prohibitive to prove for the family and both dangerous and time consuming for the police to intervene. Doctors are reluctant to use their valuable time to wait around in court to testify it was hard even in 1975 to protect children from addictive or mentally ill parents who were neglectful or abusive.

In Mississippi a family member has to first get a court order from county court for an involuntary evaluation after the "danger" has happened.

We don't like to admit that there are some humans who need constant, intelligent supervision and there's no one able and available to provide it.

Looks like the guy that was throwing trash on the side of I-55 this morning while waiting to cross over during rush hour…less than 50 yards from the underpass

"We don't like to admit that there are some humans who need constant, intelligent supervision and there's no one able and available to provide it." Sure it was unintentional but you left out "willing to provide it".

You’re never going to be able to have nice things again. Those days are gone, and they ain’t comin’ back.

The concept was that taxpayer dollars would be saved by using less expensive and more effective community based outpatient treatment rather than institutionalization.

Then, at the same time the institutions were closed, even more taxpayer dollars were saved by not establishing and funding the community based outpatient treatment!

It will get even better when SSRIs, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers are taken off the market.

We have heard that he has been released because he cannot be held in jail if he has mental difficulties. If this is true, then it is wrong on many counts. This man set fire to an occupied dwelling for God's sake. If that is not enough to send him to the forensic psychiatric ward at whitfileed then what does it take? Who can verify if he has been released. And if so who released him?

Still there.