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mopinko

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27. treating mental illness is not "conditioning to conform"

Reply to Sgt Preston (Reply #20)

Fri May 22, 2015, 10:02 AM

May 2015

it's giving people back control of their lives. and again, this is not about controlling them in jail. it is about getting them out and keeping them out. many mentally ill end up in jail because they dont have a support system, and they dont have proper medical care for anything, much less mental illness.
and it is the same folks, over and over. they call them frequent flyers. stopping that cycle is what this is about.

cook county has made great strides in getting more and better health care to the poor here. they started their own hmo through the aca, a year early through a waiver. for the first time in memory cook county hospital had more insured patients than uninsured.

just what is it you think mental illness is?

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Sheriff names psychologist to head Cook County Jail [View all] mopinko May 2015 OP

Dart is very popular. I wish he had run for mayor. mucifer May 2015 #1

"So how do you feel about being in jail?" Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #2

ftr, he has also pushed hard for the decriminalization of pot. mopinko May 2015 #4

Jails and prisons have an inordinate amount of people suffering from serious mental illness etherealtruth May 2015 #21

A superb move. ChairmanAgnostic May 2015 #23

I heard Dart interviewed earlier, and... TreasonousBastard May 2015 #3

"that's about the best this country can do." < The best we -choose- to do. Because kitchens jtuck004 May 2015 #5

Couldn't we have both? Psephos May 2015 #6

Ok, I'll work on feeding everyone. You can work on decorating their kitchens. If they have one. n/t jtuck004 May 2015 #7

I don't decorate kitchens. Psephos May 2015 #9

I gave you a suggestion. Take it, or don't, waste another's time. n/t jtuck004 May 2015 #10

"Shut up, he explained." :) n/t Psephos May 2015 #14

He's talking about phil89 May 2015 #29

What's hard to understand... Psephos May 2015 #33

They need to clone Tom Dart 47of74 May 2015 #8

works for me. mopinko May 2015 #11

Brilliant! I hope she can create a program that sets the standard for cbayer May 2015 #12

i suspect she will. when it comes to touting our accomplishments mopinko May 2015 #13

That situation, Post-Reagan, says it all. There's one more Big Reason to let the ME do its own thing libdem4life May 2015 #15

Not necessarily a good thing. Sgt Preston May 2015 #16

its not about controlling them. mopinko May 2015 #17

That's controlling them. Sgt Preston May 2015 #18

that's just absurd. mopinko May 2015 #19

What is "absurd" about it? Sgt Preston May 2015 #20

treating mental illness is not "conditioning to conform" mopinko May 2015 #27

Sounds like Dart would be good anywhere he is madokie May 2015 #22

Arapio's replacement? Be still my heart. ChairmanAgnostic May 2015 #24

What a contrast between those two madokie May 2015 #25

No kidding. I think it has to do with too much sun. ChairmanAgnostic May 2015 #26

Some people are just born madokie May 2015 #30

we have a lot of awesome folks running cook county. mopinko May 2015 #28

Yes he would be good in our congress madokie May 2015 #31

no joke. and i think the worst of them mopinko May 2015 #32