tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post2884665330502913445..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Competency restoration legislation moving, funding for new forensic beds in jeopardyGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-21836071583959294522007-05-17T21:26:00.000-05:002007-05-17T21:26:00.000-05:00The reason there are so many retarded and mentally...The reason there are so many retarded and mentally ill people in jails is no one who works in the jails or on the police forces has any medical knowledge and is able to recognize a retarded or mentally ill person. When touched some retarded people tend to defend themselves and so do the mentally ill. Police just arrest them and there is no one to evaluate them in the jails to recognize the illness this person has.<BR/><BR/>This is a shame and disgrace to treat the ill in this manner. A lot of them live on the streets and are actually homeless and the police don't get the training to recognize the difference. Go there and start to eliminate this mistreatment and abuse of a person who is ill and get some money back into State hospitals so they are able to treat those who are mentally ill and those who are retarded probably were turned out from a hospital as were the mentally ill when the last money crunch came and money was taken away from the State hospitals.<BR/><BR/>Stop this insanity and start treating people as humans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com