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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6401)	6/12/2003 6:54:04 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

"But why confine this to mentally ill prisoners? Locking someone up in a cage and having them go stir-crazy hardly seems like a prescription to reduce likelihood of future crime. In fact, the charge is made that prison is just graduate and postgraduate education for criminals." I am confining it to mentally ill prisoners because we have already discussed the effectiveness/lack of. or whatever, related to the penal system... a couple of times. "What evidence suggests treatment of mental illness reduces recidivism? Or is effective at all? There is evidence that it does help and there is evidence that it does nothing. That is part of the debate. There is a big movement to put criminals with mental illnesses into jail diversion programs or simply discharge criminals with mental illness. A radical question that occassionally comes up is the question on whether mental illness is even real. It wasn't long ago that homosexuality was classed as a serious mental illness. If it is a disease, who gets to decided. What are the criteria? Its pretty much smoke and mirror stuff when you try to establish exact criteria. Are we criminalizing mental illness? Do programs for the treatment of mental illness want criminals diverted to them? Does the criminal have the right to refuse treatment...then what?