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[Philocrat]

Riker's Island prison and the Los Angeles County jail are the largest de facto mental hospitals in the U.S.

Do events there meet the EQUITY standards, locally, if not globally? Has anyone there been cured before and re-meployed in the hospital or factory services? Do you have more information about this? Give us an idea of how things are in there...point us to some hard facts!

 

[Loren Booda]

Out of sight, out of mind!

 

[Philocrat]

Out of sight, out of mind!

Then why bother telling us about it?

 

[Loren Booda]

The criminal justice system is the channel in which many people with mental illness find themselves, a substitute for hospitals of old. In many jurisdictions nowadays the only way to commit people - ironically because their rights deny them the medical route if they refuse, unless the person poses a danger to themselves or the public - is to arrest them for a minor infraction, then hold them indefinitely with or without medicine. Can you imagine being psychotic and rather than be admitted to a clinic, getting gang-banged, raped or addicted in prison? Many take their own life under such duress.

 

[Philocrat]

I was thinking of the hospital system that really cures and rehabilitates the curable cases and equitably accommodates the uncurable ones to the very last moment. What you are describing functions to the contrary, if true.

 

[Philocrat]

The GREATEST price in a civil society is SENSE OF PURPOSE...and I suspect that high rate of suicide in and outside prisons may have a close link to the denial of this!