Yeah this is one where I don’t think you should ever get out. Ain’t worth it.
If it’s dependent on him being compliant with meds and doesn’t have someone constantly ensuring he’s on them, it isn’t gonna end well. What happens when he just decides he’s fine and doesn’t need them anymore?
The House bill gives them a pay raise for CoLA, and doesn't include support for Ukraine. They'd promised earlier this year that every bill would have 72 hours to be read and reviewed; they introduced this one and called for a vote minutes later. Fuck the Republicans.
Good question. I made my comment hastily, without taking time to think.
I’d have to know more about the judges rationale. Was the plan to keep him out of society for sixty years, or was the original intent actually to help and rehabilitate him?
I let my revulsion carry me away. If he’s cured, then letting him rot in jail wouldn’t help anyone.
He's not cured, he's being treated. And he's not just being released to the generap public, he's still going to be living in a group home, with managed care and accountability.
I mean that’s the whole point of the insanity plea. He didn’t do it for greed or for evil. He had a severe chemical imbalance that they’ve been able to treat and now he is once more socially viable.
60 years of prison would be to punish somebody for doing something that they knew was wrong, or depending on your world views to make sure that he stays incarcerated for public safety.
They didn’t give him 60 years in the funny farm to make him think about what he did. That’s the maximum amount of time he was supposed to spend in there if he didn’t get it sorted out.
That said, he would be kind of nice if we had a public health system that could check up on this guy once every 30 60 days or so, Make sure he doesn’t fall off the wagon on his medication.
We probably need people with that serious of medication problem to be checked up on for the rest of their lives. He falls through the cracks really bad s*** happens.
Any stats on the recidivism rate for the mentally ill who are treated and cleared by the Psychiatric Security Review Board, versus convicts who serve conventional terms?
Recidivism for offenders that simply serve a prison sentence as opposed to getting actual treatment is much, much higher.
I’m not sure of the exact stats in this situation, but I know domestic abusers that simply go to prison are some ~230% (give or take a couple tens, I can’t remember off the top of my head) more likely to reoffend than those who are actually treated.
Again, idk the stats for this case, but you will find that those who are simply punished rather than treated have higher recidivism rates across the board.
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