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We can't commit them because mental hospitals keep getting closed.
by throwaway080383 8y ago
We can't commit them because mental hospitals keep getting closed.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoJustifiably so. When a "hospital" has more power over penal settings and indefinite imprisonment combined with no oversight, its time for them to go. I'm sure there is a good balance here, somewhere. But what we had and now have isn't it. A better balance feels like it should include a judge, 2 doctors with at least 2 hr patient time for each, and someone else that the patient knows.
- throwaway080383 8y agoThe hospitals aren't being closed due to some guilt over them bearing too many similarities to the prison-industrial complex. They're being closed to save money, and the patients are thrown out on the street. Quite the opposite direction of paying more doctors to help these people.