[Howlin]

We don't have that option here in NC; but that's what it should be -- or something close to that; I don't know the correct words, but however it's denoted, it should mean, you ain't going to prison, but since we know you did it, go straight to an institution.

BTW, I'll go ever further: I'm in favor of a law that says once they are "cured" they go to prison.

[mrustow]

We don't have that option here in NC; but that's what it should be -- or something close to that; I don't know the correct words, but however it's denoted, it should mean, you ain't going to prison, but since we know you did it, go straight to an institution.

BTW, I'll go ever further: I'm in favor of a law that says once they are "cured" they go to prison.

That sounds about right to me. I believe that some states actually do approximate that set up, with "guilty by means of mental defect," or whatever the wording is. One way or another, you're kept under lock and key ... forever.