[Magdalen] Washington Post article on involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill

[Kate Conant]

So how is it better to have "mental" hospitals become de facto prisons?
And how many other physically ill people are untreated by choice?  Is it a
crime to have a brain disorder?  Would you shunt someone off to
maltreatment if they had epilepsy or Parkinson's?



"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> So how is it better to have our jails and prisons become de facto mental
> hospitals? Or to have our mentally ill roaming the streets untreated, as
> many do? Those who are not a danger to others are one thing, but there are
> a lot who are, and there isn't a way to get treatment for them, they just
> get locked up in jail if they happen todo something criminal.
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The biggest problem I see with commitment laws is that they are
> > discriminate treatment of the so-called "mentally ill".  They have the
> > court system deciding what someone's "diagnosis" is and then shafting
> them
> > for it.  Brain disorders are medical disorders.
> >
> > Kate
> >
> > "What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and
> walk
> > humbly with your God?"
> > Micah 6:8
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:04 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> > oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "...no good can come out of the Iowa Writers' Workshop
> > > ​"​
> > > .
> > >
> > > Might be a short story in there struggling to get out.
> > >
> > > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > > *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things
> > better
> > > for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your
> > time
> > > on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
> > >
> >
>