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-=> Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

 MP> While I agree that incarceration *in jails* doesn't work, putting them
 MP> in mental hospitals seemed to work better than what we do now...
 MP> ignoring a lot of them until it is too late... and I would like to see
 MP> us go back to that.

 When you look at mental health funding when compared to law
 enforcement, it becomes apparent that we're letting people who need
 serious help on the street and incarcerating them instead of treating
 them. I want law prevention as well as law enforcement - fund
 facilities for those people who're on the street because of mental
 issues and you'll spend less on law enforcement and prisons. There are
 police unions and privatized prisons that will take issue with that.


 MP> The fact that we don't anymore is not something I can squarely blame
 MP> "capitalism" for.  The original argument to stop hospitalizing came
 MP> from the side of the political spectrum not usually associated with
 MP> being pro- capitalism. They had a belief that it was better to try
 MP> mainstreaming the mentally ill, and doing other things to try changing
 MP> their behavior, instead of keeping them locked away from the rest of
 MP> society.  They didn't have much support for their idea until they
 MP> started using the "but it will save the government money" argument to
 MP> manipulate the other side into doing what they wanted.

 That's true, but when you look at the political power of police unions
 and the prison system, their solution is more police and more
 incarcerated.



 
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