So pass a new law one that both institutionalizes and educates. How hard is that?
Very hard! Why?
Answer:
It’s because it will require actual institutionalization that means bad political optics! The effort will challenged “ad nauseum” by Dickensian images and stories of institutional abuses & cruelties. Legions of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers & “crying mothers” will be paraded through both federal & state legislative committees saying how awful and unsupportive to treatment it is! Few politicians could withstand that PR onslaught.
Try to find a facility that can handle a kid like this. There are few if any mental institutions left and prisons aren’t meant to handle this type of behavior.
He can get his GED while he’s in prison