The mentally ill from across the state have been incarcerated in upstate institutions forever. When discharged, they're discharged into those same upstate communities resulting in an increase in the proportion of crazies just as distillation increases the concentration of alcohol.
Walk down the street in Utica and tell me I'm incorrect.
Rejoice ! Ithaca is on that list !
The reason they’re in the prisons is because Mario Cuomo released them and closed all the psych centers across the state. They ended up in the prison system, not because they’re nuts, but because they commit crimes. I know because I worked 25 years in uniform in New York State’s prison system. When I retired in 2003, the number of mentally ill inmates in the system had risen drastically. A day doesn’t go by that I don’t thank the Lord for being able to retire when I did. It was bad when I left. I can’t even imagine what it’s like now. I live in Rome, NY...wouldn’t live in Utica again if they paid me.