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February 8, 2005
The case is reminiscent of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:
Spooner
As Alan Fels says:
"This is but one particularly flagrant example of how people affected by schizophrenia and other mental illnesses are neglected and allowed to drift into homelessness, neglect and, in many cases, prison or some other inappropriate institution."
What has gone from the prison-like regime in immigration detention centres is any concern to protect mentally disturbed people.
Our prisons are now full of mentally ill people. Law and order is being used to deal with the mentally ill who have been de-institutionalized and lack proper community health care. Our jails have become dumping grounds for the mentally ill.
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