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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I worked with a kid that did two and half years in Colony Farm (a contained psyche unit near Vancouver) for pushing a cop, no harm done. just a big slow kid with profound cognative issues (maybe FASD) who got mad at being told he couldn't wait outside the rec center, his lawyer argued he was not competent for a charge that would have got him probation at most if he was 'normal'. Most psyche orders last way longer than the equivalent criminal sentence would for the same action.
Whether you are seen as mentally ill or not by the criminal justice system is pretty much a crap shoot if you're homeless, native addicted etc, most legal aid lawyers will plead you to the lowest sentence they can get, unless you are barking at the moon they don't have the time or facilities to argue you need assessing.
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Thanks for taking the time to give this answer. A very interesting perspective.