we absolutely need to resurrect state mental hospitals
the public and the homeless would both be safer
The experiment of placing mentally ill people in ‘halfway houses’ throughout our communities has largely failed. It was thought by nearly everyone sixty years ago that they’d be better off there, and become mentally healthy and possibly productive members of society. Unfortunately, they (and the ‘programs’ that facilitated the effort) instead produced an overwhelming, completely non-functional ‘homeless’ population, vandalism, disease, suffering, and crimes of all types. Our public spaces and parks have been destroyed, and our cities generally trashed. Yes, we need both mental hospitals and poor farms for our fellow citizens who cannot or will not properly care for themselves. It is uncivilized, cruel, and destructive to continue with the experiment any longer.