Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons?
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Someone got hurt/killed by something smuggled in. So the hospital got sued. The hospital thought, I guess we need to strip search everyone to make sure that it doesn’t happen again because that was a lot of freaking money. Later, there was a physical altercation. Or several. And there weren’t enough workers to keep everyone safe. And patients got hurt. So the hospital got sued. So the hospital thinks, we’ll just keep these people locked up so they can’t attack anyone else, and our workers aren’t so overwhelmed.
This could all be fixed if they hired more people, had more training, basically spent more money. Why don’t they do that? you may ask. Well, you see, they keep having to pay these lawsuits…
AlissaSameer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah the one I went to likely was underfunded as it was a total hole in the wall dump. Worst experience ever. And Im told jail is worse so just hoping I don’t get arrested
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
I had a friend get 5150’d back in the late '80s. It wasn’t…uh, fun, he said. But not as bad as what you experienced. I think it’s shittier now. I’ve had a couple friends in jail, and a few in prison, over the years. Jail sounds like it’s kinda shitty, but nothing like prison.
AlissaSameer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I actually heard that county jails are worse than prison
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Could be. My sample size is very small.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 9 months ago
County time counts two for one, sometimes 3