“So you’re saying that mental health should take a back seat compared to physical safety?
Leave them in solitary long enough, and they might bash their brains in, or go insane in some other way. Wait, we do want to let them out eventually right?”
How about we have mental health AND physical safety?
I think it can be done. A prisoner should be able to be protected from abusers and molesters. Without being in some sort of hole that forbids any human interaction.
You will get no argument from me there. The Prison-Industrial complex is evil too, but most people here don’t get to see it.
And why do we have so many inmates? The drug war and government expansion with no end in sight.