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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't just indefinitely cage a person. That would be an abuse of involuntary commitment. [/quote]

I don't think of mental health facilities as cages, and you are correct --it is very difficult to commit someone in this country against their will. However, if people were committed and treated likely they would not die in this horrible manner. If they stop taking medication, re commit them and treat them again.[/quote]

But horrible things have also happened in mental health facilities.

Here's a review that shows that according to various studies, 7 - 8 % of inpatient psychiatric patients experience sexual assault, and that's in an era of brief hospitalizations.  The longer term hospitalizations you seem to be proposing would send that number up.

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.202000038

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But freezing to death under a bridge was safer? You can't make the argument that because facilities are unsafe, we can't have them. [/quote]

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