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The vast majority of prisons are run by governments, and even private prisons are regulated. Using hospitals as a substitute for prisons will result in harm to
by nickff 2y ago
The vast majority of prisons are run by governments, and even private prisons are regulated. Using hospitals as a substitute for prisons will result in harm to treatable individuals, as well as more stigmatization of mental illness.
- tonyarkles 2y agoAs well as treating mental hospitals as potentially permanent prisons even if the crime itself has a finite sentence. In a world with no bad actors it might make sense but it only takes one bad psychiatrist (or psychiatric facility) to punish a perfectly sane individual indefinitely (or drive them to actual insanity after prolonged confinement and unnecessary psychiatric treatment)