‘They failed her:' Indy’s hospital to jail pipeline

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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. Patton was trying to stay warm that winter; the temperature outside was 34 degrees and she had no home of her own. Hospital police arrested her for trespassing. Eskenazi’s officers wrote in their report that Patton had previously caused “a disturbance” at the hospital by loitering. They gave her another trespass card with orders: unless

‘They failed her:' Indy’s hospital to jail pipeline https://apnews.com - 23.06.2026 13:33

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‘They failed her:' Indy’s hospital to jail pipeline https://apnews.com - 23.06.2026 13:33