@gAlienLifeform to News • 8 days agoScores of People Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial Are Stuck on Rikers Island: State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.www.thecity.nycexternal-linkmessage-square3arrow-up194arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up193arrow-down1external-linkScores of People Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial Are Stuck on Rikers Island: State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.www.thecity.nyc@gAlienLifeform to News • 8 days agomessage-square3file-text
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250204124942/https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/03/people-deemed-unfit-for-trial-stuck-on-rikers/
minus-squareHobbitFoot linkfedilinkEnglish6•8 days agoThe problem is that treatment in a humane facility would cost several times more than being in a jail, so this is a cost cutting measure.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•7 days agoAnd that there’s no carrot on a stick, no incentive you can lie about that you’re rehabilitating these folks. There is absolutely no rehabilitation for people this far gone. They are nothing but a behemoth of a burden.
The problem is that treatment in a humane facility would cost several times more than being in a jail, so this is a cost cutting measure.
And that there’s no carrot on a stick, no incentive you can lie about that you’re rehabilitating these folks. There is absolutely no rehabilitation for people this far gone. They are nothing but a behemoth of a burden.