The wildest part to me was the international / immigrant nurse who was shocked that in the US we care enough about the mentally ill to bother putting them in prison. She was like “back home if they don’t have family that’s willing to take care of them we just physically throw and/or kick them out of the city and let them wander off and die.” Like I’m horrified by the US prison industrial complex but that was a whole new level of unhinged that I didn’t even know existed.
As someone who gets to interact with the unhoused daily, we’re not putting the mentally ill in prison because we care but because they are bad for business.
Hey hey hey you can’t just compare the two!
That would be like comparing the amount of incarcerated people the US has to China and considering the populations.
The wildest part to me was the international / immigrant nurse who was shocked that in the US we care enough about the mentally ill to bother putting them in prison. She was like “back home if they don’t have family that’s willing to take care of them we just physically throw and/or kick them out of the city and let them wander off and die.” Like I’m horrified by the US prison industrial complex but that was a whole new level of unhinged that I didn’t even know existed.
As someone who gets to interact with the unhoused daily, we’re not putting the mentally ill in prison because we care but because they are bad for business.
I’m aware. I’m telling you someone told me in other parts of the world the solution is letting wild animals eat them.