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RobinA

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8. In This Country

Reply to sybylla (Reply #6)

Thu May 16, 2024, 10:56 AM

May 2024

it would be pretty unusual for you to be wrongly institutionalized like this. The opposite is more the problem. People who need to be locked up are not because they haven't done anything truly lethal. Yet.

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Justice Department: Nebraska unnecessarily institutionalizes people with mental illness [View all] Omaha Steve May 2024 OP

There are two factors to take into account here. Archae May 2024 #1

I suspect that the Court would agree that the truly dangerous do need confinement. cstanleytech May 2024 #2

The question is who makes that determination. Archae May 2024 #3

The system is flawed, but that is hardly the fault of patients. thucythucy May 2024 #4

People Involuntarily RobinA May 2024 #5

True. But thucythucy May 2024 #7

I'm guessing the word "unnecessarily" plays the biggest factor here. sybylla May 2024 #6

In This Country RobinA May 2024 #8

Again, the article cites violations. It has happened. sybylla May 2024 #9