> Most psych facilities are over-enrolled and have no interest in keeping people around once they're stable enough to be released

Penitentiary system is overburdened and has no interest in keeping people around once they're safe enough to be released.

Makes equal amount of sense to me.

In USSR, punitive psychiatry was the tool of choice for the government in the times of wide international information dissemination.

I don't mean to ridicule the American struggle for fixing community policing - I understand that defunding and disbanding the police comes out of a desperate situation, and I admire this kind of courage for radical changes. But it's a mistake to think that one step is a complete solution.