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Originally Posted by AnonymousStranger
What's to stop someone with a strong will and intent to murder someone from studying up on the symptoms of schizophrenia and tricking the doctors into letting them out into society, 5 years after murdering someone? I completely understand that people may have mental illness, but once that illness causes them to take the lives of other people, the mental illness should have no bearing on their incarceration and they should not be let back into society. I feel like the government is committing a grave error on this one.
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This is simply not a reasonable fear. As Resolute states, you'd have to keep up the charade almost 24-7 way before and after you murder someone.
And you better believe it won't be "one stupid doctor" you luckily get assigned to you. You'd be up against forensic psychiatrists many times while being investigated, plus entire teams of doctors and specialists during your incarceration in hospital, and then a bunch more upon your decades long transition back into society.
Politely put, there are lots of legitimate concerns with integrating paranoid schizophrenics back into society, but this concern is simply absurd.