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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived
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To: one_less who wrote (6392)6/12/2003 4:27:34 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
I didn't respond to your topic when you first posted it because the question was framed oddly so I figured I wait and see if it firmed up. I have trouble getting my head around the notion that a sex change operation falls under the umbrella of mental health treatment in any serious way.

As for the entitlement to mental health treatment or any other health treatment, for that matter, I'm more focused on the best interests of the state than the rights of the prisoners. I think it depends on whether the prisoner will be leaving prison with the expectation of functioning in society or not. If they are going to be getting out and if treatment will fix whatever condition they have, particularly if it's a condition that landed them in prison in the first place, then it makes sense to me to fix it. Even if they won't get getting out, if they have a condition that can be fixed with a daily pill, then it would seem inhumane not to prescribe it just as it would seem inhumane to not remove a ruptured appendix. But I sure wouldn't be doing anything heroic or expensive for a lifer, merely keep them alive and comfortable. And I would do it on the basis of humane treatment rather than treating it as an entitlement.

But then, you know my views on prisons...
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