One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Man spends four decades in mental hospital for stealing $20 necklace
According to the article, he was not ever convicted of the necklace theft. He was locked up for being insane.
I think that he is probably in the right place. He sounds much like my brother in law, who should be institutionalized, but is not. The law governing the insane is insane as you would expect on any issue deemed important by the insane left.
The man has been conditionally released multiple times over the years. Apparently, he does not adapt well to change of environment.
Government officials steal millions and billions and trillions and do not get “locked up” in insane asylums.
Though they most certainly should!
They implement the same old policies and strategies, expecting different results each and every time.
Is that NOT insanity???
Not sure why this is a problem. Personally, I think anyone who successfully beats a rap in a criminal case based on an insanity defense should spend at least as much time in a mental institution as he or she would have spent in prison under a maximum sentence. If someone isn’t responsible for their criminal conduct because of their mental state, then they certainly don’t belong walking around freely in public.
Playing devil’s advocate here but it appears the guy admitted to being crazy and then was violent and confrontational for many years while in the system. The same people who decry this man’s institutionalization will look at the Adam Lanza’s of the world and ask “why wasn’t he in a hospital?”
be careful what you wish for
My guess is that he does fine on his medications, but when he gets out, he won’t stay on them and rapidly spirals.
He could have shot the president and a few others and gotten out for weekends and such. I guess he tried to steal a necklace from a democrat.
Since 1971, shrinks have declared that homosexuality is no longer a mental illness. Psychiatry is the biggest form of witchcraft we have going in America.