A temporary program for “dangerously mentally ill” patients has continued for five decades, despite calls from critics to provide better care. Soon, Idaho will be the only state still using prisons to house patients who face no criminal charges.
  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    71·
    11 months ago

    There needs to be a permanent but humane place for crazies. Some people cannot be rehabillitated and pols need to stop being able to play God with which ones can be freed and kill

    • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      Yes. More to the point, there’s a lot of things that we use cops and prisons for that cops and prisons are just plain unqualified to do.

      When your solution to mental illness is cops, you tend to kill or imprison people without helping them. When your answer to homelessness is cops, you still have homeless people but they end up in prisons or dead when it’s cheaper and more humane to give them housing and some time with a social worker etc, etc