##Pitch: How are black inmates screened and treated for depression? Slug: mentallyill-black-inmates
####Who cares? Those suffering from mental illness, families with someone who has mental illness, [black] activists/organizations, people concerned about the costs of prisons ####Why do we care now?
In the past year, there has been national media attention on several instances of police violence against black mentally ill suspects and inmates. On March 9, 27-year-old Anthony Hill, an unarmed black male suffering from bipolar disorder, was fatally shot by a police officer in Georgia. An episode of This American Life, aired Feb. 13, “Cops See it Differently, Part Two,” detailed a black mentally ill man’s struggle with being harassed by the police.
Already in 2015, conditions within prisons have received national media attention (e.g. Rikers, [Attica](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/nyregion/attica-prison-infamous-for-bloodshed-faces-