Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice

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Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice
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There needs to be a permanent but humane place for crazies. Some people cannot be rehabillitated and pols need to stop being able to play God with which ones can be freed and kill

Yes. More to the point, there's a lot of things that we use cops and prisons for that cops and prisons are just plain unqualified to do.

When your solution to mental illness is cops, you tend to kill or imprison people without helping them. When your answer to homelessness is cops, you still have homeless people but they end up in prisons or dead when it's cheaper and more humane to give them housing and some time with a social worker etc, etc