I guess I want to go back, because I haven't been in this thread for a while, and I want to address the question that somebody asked me about victim rights and the mental health aspect of it.
The question is how can we afford closure for the family of the victim, they're important in this equation as well. As it stands, I don't think that there's even been an explanation to the family on anything, they're dependent on the media to give them the information, I think whether its the prison system or the mental health system they have a right to be communicated to directly instead of getting the shock that their sons brutal killer is just being released on un-supervised leaves.
Part of the issue here is that they have to feel that their son has value in this whole equation as well. There has to be some care to the families mental state to.
Its the same with the parole system.
As for the unsupervised leave, I can't dispute mental health professionals, my expertise lies in software. We do need to reflect some aspect of public safety and trust in the system into this equation as well, and if the thin line for Li is medication there has to be a 100% chance that he's not going to go off of his meds ever, and that he's monitored for adverse reactions to the meds forever.
I don't want to get into the whole pedo versus schizophrenia because I don't think that they're at all compatible and the public safety aspect is far far different.
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