re: #141 Gus 802

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.

That’s not all of it. The mental health system has been shrunk so much that there is chronic shortage of space. Hence, judges and cops are reluctant to label someone as mentally ill since the space shortage means they just get released without effective treatment. So often the mentally ill go to prison, as that is the only confinement where there is space available.