“She is sentenced, like so many seriously mentally ill people in America, to rotate in and out of correctional facilities until she dies. Prisons and jails are the main mental-health facilities in the country, something Sheriff Dart describes as an “abomination.’” According to this article, the solution is locking the loonies up in their custom bin. “[T]hese days it is very rare for people to be put in a mental-health institution unless they are a danger to themselves or others.” This is supposed to be a problem? I don’t get some of these writers. Yes, the criminalization of illness (and poverty, and race) is a problem. But the solution is only rarely going to be other forms of incarceration, whether we’re talking about forced, permanent institutional care; poorhouses; or internment camps. Because these are “solutions” only for those of us who never need to fear being locked up, who define the problem as residing in the other. econ.st/18ULYaj pic.twitter/47hMp4qdYY
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:35:49 +0000
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