Subj : Re: AI actress Tilly Norw
To   : Mike Powell
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Tue Oct 07 2025 01:18 pm

-=> Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

MP> While I agree that incarceration *in jails* doesn't work, putting them
MP> in mental hospitals seemed to work better than what we do now...
MP> ignoring a lot of them until it is too late... and I would like to see
MP> us go back to that.

When you look at mental health funding when compared to law
enforcement, it becomes apparent that we're letting people who need
serious help on the street and incarcerating them instead of treating
them. I want law prevention as well as law enforcement - fund
facilities for those people who're on the street because of mental
issues and you'll spend less on law enforcement and prisons. There are
police unions and privatized prisons that will take issue with that.


MP> The fact that we don't anymore is not something I can squarely blame
MP> "capitalism" for.  The original argument to stop hospitalizing came
MP> from the side of the political spectrum not usually associated with
MP> being pro- capitalism. They had a belief that it was better to try
MP> mainstreaming the mentally ill, and doing other things to try changing
MP> their behavior, instead of keeping them locked away from the rest of
MP> society.  They didn't have much support for their idea until they
MP> started using the "but it will save the government money" argument to
MP> manipulate the other side into doing what they wanted.

That's true, but when you look at the political power of police unions
and the prison system, their solution is more police and more
incarcerated.




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