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If someone is so mentally off center that they're a danger to others, they need to be kept from others.
Not guilty by reason of insanity should lead to a mental hospital.
The stay to be governed by how long it takes them to regain sanity and if they never do, then they stay forever.
An insanity plea shouldn't be a means to escape all the consequences of their actions.
Arguably, a successful insanity defense should yield a worse "punishment" than prison because release is predicated on showing they have, fully, recovered from their psychosis and are safe to be among the rest of us. That predication makes the sentence open ended and indefinite.
I'm open to the argument that any mental illness that leads to a homicide should end in euthanasia. I can also see how dangerous that idea is, so I'm not advocating for it.
We've a mental health problem in the US. We dismantled a working system in the Reagan era, rightfully in too many cases, and did nothing to replace it.
Solid, compassionate, institutions caring for the mentally ill were closed with the callous and abusive. Thanks Sixty Minutes!
It does need fixed, but who do you trust to do it?
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