re: #134 theheat

Consider the mental institutions a convenient dumping ground for the crazy, inconvenient, abandoned, and severely retarded, and you could see its allure.

Personal responsibility only applies when it’s convenient.

Which is what has happened to many people with behavioral problems which leads to prison time. Law enforcement, judiciary, and the penal system are barely qualified to make a mental health evaluation. They don’t want to evaluate people as having a mental illness because then it deprives them the ability to attain penal revenge.