gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 days agoScores of People Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial Are Stuck on Rikers Island: State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.www.thecity.nycexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up193arrow-down1external-linkScores of People Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial Are Stuck on Rikers Island: State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.www.thecity.nycgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square3fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarecuriousaur@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoAnd that there’s no carrot on a stick, no incentive you can lie about that you’re rehabilitating these folks. There is absolutely no rehabilitation for people this far gone. They are nothing but a behemoth of a burden.
And that there’s no carrot on a stick, no incentive you can lie about that you’re rehabilitating these folks. There is absolutely no rehabilitation for people this far gone. They are nothing but a behemoth of a burden.