Subj : Mental health disablities
To   : MATTHEW MUNSON
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon Sep 23 2024 09:57:00

> I think people with unchecked schizofrenia should be required to go on
> medical treatment, if they have a criminal record.

There are a lot of ways I think that people should be required to get
treatment but, due to our lax treatment of mental illnesses, they never are.

Recently, the closest large (and leftist) city to me has been in a lot of
trouble for what their police and jail system have been up to.  However, one
of the most recent things they've been criticised for is putting people with
obvious mental conditions into the local state-run psych hospital rather than
into "mainstreaming programs."

IMHO, that is what the state-run hospital is there for.  I see those
mainstreaming programs as being the reason that people with criminal mental
issues are on the streets and not locked up, so I see this practice of
putting people into the psych hospital as one of the few things they've been
accused of that they are actually doing right.


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