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Psychiatry in Los Angeles jails offers a "spatial fix" for rising numbers of people deemed incompetent to stand trial. This approach deepens jail mental health crises rather than resolving them.

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Background:

Rising numbers of individuals found incompetent to stand trial in jails.
Recurrent challenges in managing mental illness within correctional facilities.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the role of psychiatry as a "spatial fix" within the Los Angeles carceral system.
To analyze how psychiatric interventions manage, rather than resolve, jail mental health crises.

Main Methods:

Four years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Los Angeles jail mental health facility.
Analysis of the mobilization of psychiatric personnel, discourses, and technologies.

Main Results:

Psychiatry acts as a provisional solution, displacing but not resolving systemic issues in jails.
The "psychiatric fix" deepens crises and secures the carceral social order.
This approach has implications for understanding psychiatric power within the US carceral state.

Conclusions:

The mobilization of psychiatry within jails creates new problems while reinforcing the existing carceral system.
Psychiatric power plays a crucial role in the evolving US carceral state.