Grandmother of 10 dies in prison after being held for 5 months on $300 misdemeanor charge

According to Refinery29, the Bexar County Sheriff’s office could not confirm whether or not Dotson-Stephens had been diagnosed with a mental health condition. The Dotson family is bewildered, saying that Janice had many people who loved her and would have easily put up the money to have her taken out of jail and transferred to a mental health hospital. According to the family, not hearing from Janice for weeks or months at a time was something that could happen when she was off her medications. Anyone who has dealt with loved ones who suffer from mental illness know that this is not an uncommon anxiety for families to have to do deal with.