[Jim Noble]

The courts had almost nothing to do with ending asylum for the seriously mentally ill.

It was Congress, encouraged by JFK, who enacted a presumption for treatment in nonexistent community facilities, and Reagan who finished the job by executive order.

When judges release seriously mentally ill people from confinement, they are mostly following the law your representatives made.

[dfwgator]

The courts had almost nothing to do with ending asylum for the seriously mentally ill.

It was Congress, encouraged by JFK, who enacted a presumption for treatment in nonexistent community facilities,

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Wasn’t JFK’s sister lobotomized?

[Valpal1]

The court made the “danger to self or others” standard that allows the mentally ill and hopelessly addicted to stay out on the streets.