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 "KMoiarty"  wrote: 
 "> This is off topic, but... 
 "> Some of these guys are 'mental-hospital', not 'hardened criminal', 
 materia 
 "> 
 "> Unfortunately, thanks in part to a movie viewing public that too often 
 fai 
 "> to distinguish between reality and mere entertainment... case in point 
 the 
 "> profound effect on public perceptions to do with mental illness and its 
 "> medical treatment, the movie classic, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", 
 h 
 "> had... in most of North America, mental hospitals are either permanently 
 "> closed down or functioning only in a state of  decline or 'impending- 
 closu 
 "> limbo', as many communities inaccurately regard them as inhumane, 
 "> 'politically incorrect' dinosaurs of the past.  As a direct result, 
 "> illness-compromised people such as the above (apparent) case are being 
 lef 
 "> undertreated as well as unprotected from, both, their illness-related 
 "> extreme-lack-of-judgement and the criminal/predatorial-user element 
 taking 
 "> advantage of them. 
  
 They're being closed because of politics -- nobody wants to spend money on 
 "them 
 nuts" :P 
  
  
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