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Mental hospitals should be places where people with mental illnesses can go for care and treatment. They shouldn't do double-duty as prisons.
True, but the opposite is the case now: several times more people with mental illness resulting in or at least contributing to unwanted behavior are imprisoned than are receiving any kind of treatment.
As indicated by the fact that the most incarceration-happy country in the world continues to have a much higher rate of violence and enrichment crimes than most rich countries, the prison industrial complex doesn't work for anyone except for the people profiting financially and electorally from its abuses.
If you want to actually reduce crime and make a better society, poverty alleviation, improving mental health services, and restorative justice is the way to go.
The current model of increasingly draconian oppression only leads to MORE crime AND more false imprisonment.
Right. But there needs to be secure treatment facilities.