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hedgehog

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9. Given that we are currently using prisons to house a large number of the mentally ill,

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #8)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 11:12 AM

Oct 2012

commitment to a hospital would be an improvement. But we are already incarcerating a large number of black men; we need to be careful that we don't end up calling some of these men mentally ill and incarcerating them for life without parole.

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Childhood stimulation key to brain development, study finds [View all] xchrom Oct 2012 OP

I don't think you need a brain scan to know this. bemildred Oct 2012 #1

Now we need a study relating the cortical differences Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #2

Yep, "no self-control", in other words. bemildred Oct 2012 #3

It may also result from frontal & prefrontal cortical problems. Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #4

Quite true. bemildred Oct 2012 #5

That's a dangerous path to go down - hedgehog Oct 2012 #7

You would rather put a psychotic person in prison for life? Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #8

Given that we are currently using prisons to house a large number of the mentally ill, hedgehog Oct 2012 #9

This headline could have been written 30 years ago - and in fact it was! Chemisse Oct 2012 #6

More than 50 years ago. Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #10