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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
I watched an interesting documentary on National Geographic last night that said the US Prison System is the world's largest Mental Health Provider. Something like a quarter of inmates had some form of mental disorder.
It's amazing how many people with mental illness end up in the slammer. And treatment there is just great.
I guess the question ends up being, if you're mentally ill, and commit a crime, are you to be treated the same as someone who is mentally fit who commits the same crime?
Interesting stuff.
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I saw that show too and it was super interesting..................it questions the entire "corrections" system and its methods. I thought the part about prisoner isolation making them mentally ill was fascinating as well.
If I ran the country-side, the psycho be-header would be hung on live TV........and then shot repeatedly.