We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.
Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.
For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.
We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help.
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.
The mass incarceration going on in this country and with my people is crazy.
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.