[tired&retired]

This is one of the reasons the prisons have been at capacity.

A very high percentage of inmates are mentally ill and were identified as such prior to committing the act that led to them being incarcerated.

[jsanders2001]

I did some checking and found out that the government DOES track patients on particular medications. Its called the PAT System and theybhave something similar in just about every state. Most psychotopic drugs are monitored. According to my source the system was originally designed to identify patients (addicts) who were trying to shop around to get certain drugs when they were turned down by one physician and would go to another physivian tryingnto get their fix. But get this - the system could be queried to poduce lists of patients on psychotropic drugs. A creative mind might use this info to target these drug addled minds to make them snap. If they had a gun they might even shoot some place up.

https://www.texaspatx.com/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fdefault.aspx

[Sooth2222]

"A very high percentage of inmates are mentally ill and were identified as such prior to committing the act that led to them being incarcerated."

The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 with de-institutionalization of the mentally ill resulted in the current problem. The lawyers and politicians have made it virtually impossible to prevent a dangerous individual from harming himself or harming others without imprisoning him.

All of the mass killers in the news have been bat**** crazy and it was fairly obvious to everyone who came into contact with them. Most of the killers even look crazy!