Psychiatric Patients With No Place to Go but Jail

[timbo]

The heart bleeding liberals of the 60s can be thanked for what we are facing today.
They were the ones that wanted the 'mental hospitals' closed. Of course there were outright violations of people being put in these hospitals, but there were many that were a danger to themselves and society.

But that isn't the way they shut them down. It was all mental patients booted out and the facilities were closed, and yes group homes were an alternate to the hospitals,but most of those using them are harmless folk that have a low mental capacity and most wouldn't hurt a fly.

We have a group home about a mile or so from our house and from the outside it looks like every other home near it.
Until you see the huge van loaded with what looks like at least 8-10 people in it heading out somewhere.

I live too far from it to know if there are problems there.

[1Ms. America]

I remember back in the '70's when our state shut down one of the main state mental health hospitals to save money. Many of those people were tossed out into the streets, but several were placed into nursing homes that were NOT equipped, or staffed with trained mental health care nurses. The patients were simply kept heavily medicated to maintain control.

I don't know if in reality it ever saved much of anything. Displaced workers found new jobs, displaced people collected welfare or SSI. Anyone who broke the law was jailed and had to be maintained. All it really did was cause a lot of suffering, and shifted the ledgers to reflect that money wasn't going in the same direction...it went in a different direction.

[nharrold]

The heart bleeding liberals of the 60s can be thanked for what we are facing today.
They were the ones that wanted the 'mental hospitals' closed. Of course there were outright violations of people being put in these hospitals, but there were many that were a danger to themselves and society.

But that isn't the way they shut them down. It was all mental patients booted out and the facilities were closed, and yes group homes were an alternate to the hospitals,but most of those using them are harmless folk that have a low mental capacity and most wouldn't hurt a fly.

We have a group home about a mile or so from our house and from the outside it looks like every other home near it.
Until you see the huge van loaded with what looks like at least 8-10 people in it heading out somewhere.

I live too far from it to know if there are problems there.

Governor "Moonbeam" shut 'em down in CA some years back. No real problem, though, most of the patients eventually went into politics and gummint...

[kiawahman]

Governor "Moonbeam" shut 'em down in CA some years back. No real problem, though, most of the patients eventually went into politics and gummint...