"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Cheaper to keep 'em in a prison than a psych hospital. A bed in a psych
hospital costs upwards of $200/day. In my state, we can house a prisoner
for about $50/day (and we do it for about 157,000 prisoners).

If all we care about is the financial cost.... But in prison the mentally
ill are not only not likely to get meaningful help with their illness,
they're likely to become worse so when they're eventually released they are
a greater problem than before.