Thanks for the responses. I just wanted to say that you can access the articles by just googling "withdrawal and jail". I would post the link but there was some advertising on the page so I figured it would just get erased. lol ( u can me PM for the article.) But the figures of people suffering alcohol withdrawal upon arrest was like 750,000 thousand a year. If even 1% of those die from withdrawal its still thousands of people. At first it seemed way off, but there must be thousands of people arrested every night, and most arrests have something to do with drugs anyway. Its so tragic. But of course as we know prisoners are neglected and abused in other ways as well.