Reply #54: The stats on how many of those in prison are just people [View All]

[truedelphi]

With untreated mental illnesses is staggering.

At a cost of over $ 35k a year, it is an insane policy.

For that same $ 35 K they could be living in a fairly nice Developmentally Disabled center.

My last trip into San Francisco, there was a paranoid schoizophrenic woman, homeless and on the streets, surrounded by several shopping carts with her belongings, talking waway to God and everyone else.

She looked so much like clients who live in comfy developmental centers where I have worked that I almost cried.

How can the (former) greatest nation on earth do this to people??