A Weird Argument About The Mentally Ill In Prison
Interesting little op-ed in today's New York Times about...well, it's kind of a tangled up mess of an argument about incarceration rates, rates of hospitalization of the mentally, crime, public policy and so on. It's copy that could've used a haircut, as one of my old editors would put it. I think the learned academic who wrote it is troubled by the number of mentally ill in our nation's prisons--coming late to the party are you?--but it's entirely unclear to me whether he's calling for more state mental hospital beds or what. You tell me.
Maybe it's copy that needs a full-on shave with a straight razor.
Posted by Philip Dawdy at January 16, 2007 12:03 AM
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Do the crime , do the time. There is no excuse for a crime.I have several serious psychiatric diagnosis and I believe in Thomas Szasz point of view. http://www.szasz.com/iol9.html
Every criminal has an excuse as to why they did the crime ...if they admit doing it. Find a "sane" murderer.
Psychiatry has convinced everyone mental illness is a real physical disease by repeating the chemical imbalance theory so often. Even if it was a real provable physical defect, this defect can not perform complicated acts such as robbing a bank .Peoples minds make decisions to do good or evil, abide the law or break it.
