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8 responses to “Reopen the asylums for the criminally insane”

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   TRoy

   April 13, 2026 at 6:53 am

   Psychiatric diagnoses are inherently subjective. Insane people are no less culpable than sane ones, regardless of what society now says. Make capital punishment standard again. I have worked in state mental health in a prison setting. It is neither mysterious nor effective. It’s just a different security level with a lot of prescription drugs and doctors who are just as crazy as the “patients “. Until we decide that everyone is responsible for their own actions, regardless of excuses, we can expect more of the same.

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   TRoy

   April 13, 2026 at 6:57 am

   This writeup is also a reminder of why it is a good idea to stay strapped. (or get clapped)

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   dave in pa.

   April 13, 2026 at 7:23 am

   evil walks the planet. face it. and the stupid liberal judges
   will always side with the poor stupid fool that killed someone for no reason. until something changes, this will go on for years. I am so tired of he doesn’t know any better kind of bullshit. in the old days, these “people” where hung or fried in the chair. and not put out again and again to prey on others.
   get as far away from any liberal run city as you can.
   there is only one way this stops and that is not going to be a good time for anyone.

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   steves6

   April 13, 2026 at 7:37 am

   Unsurprisingly it was liberals that raised the furor that got the asylums closed in the first place. Which put the inmates out on the street instead of “they should be with their family” who couldn’t handle them and had put them there in the first place.

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   Doug

   April 13, 2026 at 10:17 am

   What would she decide if it were her child who was killed?

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   Gerry

   April 13, 2026 at 10:27 am

   We still have them in Kentucky. They send the mentally impaired there when they are too crazy to run loose.

   They are called State Hospitals

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   Nemo

   April 13, 2026 at 11:10 am

   The judges that are making these insane ruling need to be removed from the bench, one way or another.

   The fact that they are being allowed to continue making these insane rulings is more proof that the left is intentionally inciting chaos in the system so that they can swoop in with promises they will never fulfill, except to gain power.

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8. 

   Unferth

   April 13, 2026 at 11:29 am

   The argument for not prosecuting is that the defendant is not mentally competent to aid in their defense. It does not have to do with their mental capacity at the time of the crime. I can get behind this concept if, and only if, they are incarcerated until they are mentally capable of aiding their own defense (and then put them on trial).

   I have mixed opinion on the mental institutions being brought back. Specifically, if someone is sane and should be let out, the institution is being paid to keep them locked up.

   I used to pick up hitchhikers on a regular basis. Fred was the only guy I gave a ride to more than once. He was in his 80s at the time I was giving him rides. Long story short, his abusive step-dad had him put in a mental hospital when he was 6. At 21, the mental hospital wouldn’t let him out since he was somebody’s meal ticket and was easy money. He wasn’t released until Reagan closed the mental hospitals (when Fred was 50). Fred said, “Thank God for Reagan, otherwise I would have died in there.”

   Local judges are usually elected offices, including North Carolina in a “non-partisan” election. These judges need to be removed at the next electoral opportunity.

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