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We also decided it was cheaper. It was expensive to keep whole institutional systems, and it was expensive to keep them in jail. A lot of recent sentencing ref

We also decided it was cheaper. It was expensive to keep whole institutional systems, and it was expensive to keep them in jail. A lot of recent sentencing reform was motivated by the desire to lower the cost of running prisons, and started off Republican-led. Whenever people talk about solving mental health crises with jail time, no one is willing to put up the money.

macspoofing 3y ago
>Whenever people talk about solving mental health crises with jail time, no one is willing to put up the money. This is not a question of resources but of political will. There is no appetite, especially on the left, for any kind of forced institutionalization. There is an ideological aspect to this as well, where it is more ideologically aligned to pretend that homelessness is mainly (or wholly) caused by a lack of affordable housing, and therefore _only_ affordable housing polices are put forth as a solution.