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Originally Posted by peter12
I used to volunteer at a mental institute. The first five floors were pretty much like an old folks home, and were filled with people who needed long-term care, but weren't really at risk to themselves or others. The top two floors were for those sad souls with violent tendencies. I was allowed to go up, escorted, a couple of times to make some deliveries. It was awful.
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I spent years working as a release worker in our local youth custody centre.
Had to drive a kid from jail to Riverview, the mental health facility in Vancouver.
The kid was hitting 19 and to old and unstable for jail, we got to the 'hospital' and he was shown his bed in a Dickensian ward full of shuffling drooling medicated wrecks, the kid was crying and begging me to take him back to the jail, one of the worst days I had in a job where about 1 in twenty of my clients ended up getting killed in the gang wars.