This happened to a family member of mine and it's honestly the best possible outcome for people as out of touch with reality as he is. This may not be the best

This happened to a family member of mine and it's honestly the best possible outcome for people as out of touch with reality as he is. This may not be the best system for some that get caught in it, but it does serve a purpose in dealing with the criminally insane. He was too dangerous and unpredictable to live with us anymore. The rest of the family kept weapons under our beds of various kinds, hoping to God we would never need to use them. A group home was a joke, he would have assaulted someone within a week. He would escape and start driving on the wrong side of the road on purpose for "reasons". We hid the keys, but he was above normal intelligence despite his insanity and would always find them. He would attack his family and the neighbors when he thought we were after him. His prospects were jail and homelessness, we were so happy when he ended up in a high security mental facility, ecstatic. Now he's in a place that's better than jail or being homeless where people care about him at least a slight amount and there's relative safety. He's not surrounded by criminals, behind bars, or dying on the street. Yeah, it's not a great place to be, but the best outcome an extremely schizophrenic large male can hope for. He doesn't deserve jail because he has no bearing on what is allowed in society and attacks people out of fear. When he's calm it can seem like you're talking to a normal person for a few minutes. Then he goes off the rails... But still there's a really intelligent shard of sanity in there somewhere.