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<blockquote data-quote="Buzzdraw" data-source="post: 2834806" data-attributes="member: 385"><p>A fair number of those individuals in county jails are mentals without a criminal cherry on top. Just simply mentals, sometimes off meds sometimes not. If in the the jail intake classification process they could be identified and either put in a special part of the jail or in a semi-secure treatment facility that would save tax dollars. Too often such a place, either in the jail or outside the walls, does not exist or is already full. </p><p></p><p>The mental hospitals of 50-100 years ago were stigmatized as "snake pits" and some were. Society reacted to this by swinging the front gates open, sending all but the most dangerous out into society. Some do okay on the fringes of society. Others are constantly into trouble.</p><p></p><p>This is NOT an easy issue to deal with. Locking all them away puts us back 50-100 years. If society would spend the time and resources SOME can be helped. It must realize that all cannot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buzzdraw, post: 2834806, member: 385"] A fair number of those individuals in county jails are mentals without a criminal cherry on top. Just simply mentals, sometimes off meds sometimes not. If in the the jail intake classification process they could be identified and either put in a special part of the jail or in a semi-secure treatment facility that would save tax dollars. Too often such a place, either in the jail or outside the walls, does not exist or is already full. The mental hospitals of 50-100 years ago were stigmatized as "snake pits" and some were. Society reacted to this by swinging the front gates open, sending all but the most dangerous out into society. Some do okay on the fringes of society. Others are constantly into trouble. This is NOT an easy issue to deal with. Locking all them away puts us back 50-100 years. If society would spend the time and resources SOME can be helped. It must realize that all cannot. [/QUOTE]
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