Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons?

amio@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Because if you don't keep a close eye on mental patients, some of them might hurt or kill themselves or other people - sometimes in extraordinarily resourceful and unexpected ways. It's rare and overhyped, but the fact that it does happen means the system needs to account for it. Then add the usual amount of greed, incompetence, stigma etc., and suddenly the only way of accounting for that is, well, prison style.

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