Re:Iowa City made its buses free. traffic cleared, and so di...
by Spooky23 on Monday November 24, 2025 @12:00AM
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Those mental institutions weren’t equipped to treat them either. They were just awful places full of abuse and other cruelty.
Re:Iowa City made its buses free. traffic cleared, and so di...
by xethos on Monday November 24, 2025 @05:25AM
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> Part of the surge of mass incarceration was that people who would have been hospitalized in an earlier time now get warehoused in a place that isn’t equipped to treat them.
Puts a different spin on the System of a Down lyrics, "The percentage of Americans in the prison system (prison system) has doubled since 1985" (Prison Song, Toxicity, 2001).
This further reinforces the other complaints (in the song) about drug offences landing people in jail, some of them from self-medicating a mental illness they can't or won't get treatment for
What scares me about deinstitutionalization is that there are ways that people can ‘exit’ as in: move to the suburbs, drive instead of take public transportation, order a private taxi for your burrito instead of go to a restaurant. If public spaces can’t protect themselves we’ll have nothing but private spaces.