Incarceration does not help mentally ill people. People can yell “lock em up” but the reality is that in 6 months or a year when they get out they have all the same problems. We need to put our money and resources towards treatment. When you have a mental illness you are often unaware of it. It’s called agnosignosia. Commitment and treatment until a person is stable enough to understand the problem and gain some measure of control is the right course of action but taxpayers don’t want to fund it. They would rather shove millions into prisons that accomplish nothing for the mentally ill.
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