I was recently involuntarily held in a mental hospital where I went through prison like conditions (strip search, had to wear scrubs, was locked in a room outside certain times a day, stuff like that) and thankfully came out in one piece after 8 days of this crap. I was just wondering why we subject people to these conditions when they haven’t even committed a crime?
Someone got hurt/killed by something smuggled in. So the hospital got sued. The hospital thought, I guess we need to strip search everyone to make sure that it doesn’t happen again because that was a lot of freaking money. Later, there was a physical altercation. Or several. And there weren’t enough workers to keep everyone safe. And patients got hurt. So the hospital got sued. So the hospital thinks, we’ll just keep these people locked up so they can’t attack anyone else, and our workers aren’t so overwhelmed.
This could all be fixed if they hired more people, had more training, basically spent more money. Why don’t they do that? you may ask. Well, you see, they keep having to pay these lawsuits…
Yeah the one I went to likely was underfunded as it was a total hole in the wall dump. Worst experience ever. And Im told jail is worse so just hoping I don’t get arrested
I had a friend get 5150’d back in the late '80s. It wasn’t…uh, fun, he said. But not as bad as what you experienced. I think it’s shittier now. I’ve had a couple friends in jail, and a few in prison, over the years. Jail sounds like it’s kinda shitty, but nothing like prison.
I actually heard that county jails are worse than prison
Could be. My sample size is very small.
County time counts two for one, sometimes 3