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Originally Posted by Boblobla
I guess. I am just worried that he will be 'cured' in 2 years and out on the streets. I am sorry but if a condition is so severe that if not treated you run around cutting off head and putting body parts in bags to keep for later I don't think they should ever be allowed out. Jail just seems more permanent to me.
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What you are worried about is the "system" failing us. That system could be incarceration in a mental facility or a jail environment. Far too often we have heard of early releases from either type of setting and time has shown that the person was not ready for release.
No matter which facility is chosen for someone like Li, there has to be accountability. And I am talking about accountability by the system that incarcerated the person. You can no more hold a mentally incapacitated person accountable than you can reason with someone who is not sane. But you can hold the system and the people hired to manage that system and to deal with the individual accountable.
We the public deserve that accountablilty and should expect it. If we do not get it, then those "sane" people who blew it should be held accountable.