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‘They Failed her:’ Indy’s Hospital to Jail Pipeline
Records show Eskenazi officers made more than 800 arrests from 2020 to 2025, mostly for nonviolent offenses, as hospital leaders defended the police force.
- Records from the past five years show Eskenazi Health's police force arrests someone every two to three days, with approximately 90% of those arrests occurring on the hospital's main campus in Indianapolis.
- Following a 2013 Indiana law allowing hospitals to form their own police departments, the Health and Hospital Corporation Police Department now employs 117 officers—a force comparable in size to entire cities like Muncie.
- Approximately 77% of arrests involve non-violent offenses, exemplified by Adilah Patton, who spent more than 800 days in jail for criminal trespass while struggling with schizophrenia.
- Eskenazi leadership maintains officers 'put patient care first' and arrest less than 1% of people encountered, yet critics, including Patton's mother Ebony Chisholm, argue the practice criminalizes patients for mental illness.
- Dr. Ruth Shim, a professor at the University of California, Davis, notes police often view symptoms of mental illness as illegal, fueling a national debate on whether officers are the appropriate response for patients in crisis.
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Adilah Patton went to the emergency room at Eskenazi Health. After being discharged, the 21-year-old spent the night in the waiting room. It was January 2018.
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‘They failed her:' Indy’s hospital to jail pipeline
It was January 2018.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right4Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution37% Center, 36% Right
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- 37% of the sources are Center, 36% of the sources lean Right
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C 37%
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