Imprisoning the ill

The guy had been arrested 14 times and should not have been out on no cash bail. Clearly he had mental health problems and should’ve been in prison where he couldn’t murder a woman on public transit.

Does America incarcerate people who have coronary problems, kidney problems, cancer problems, mental health problems? Have any other societies done that to eliminate such problems?

This is a terrible tragedy. It is a personal tragedy for the woman killed, her friends, and family. It is a personal tragedy for the mentally ill man and his family. But it is also an indictment of a political ethos that pours billions into prisons and says that ill people should be imprisoned.

By the way, his arrest earlier this year was for the heinous offence of phoning 911 saying that he was being controlled by something inside his body.

When he was arrested in January for misusing 911, she said he kept saying “he had a chip in him," and that "the police put it in him." According to the affidavit from Brown’s arrest in January, officers were responding to a welfare call when Brown told them he believed someone gave him a “man-made” material that controlled what he ate and how he walked and talked.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-sister-charlotte-stabbing-suspect-describe-history-mental/story?id=125451590