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F.O.A.D.

On 11/19/13, 8:47 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:41:29 -0500, BAR wrote:

The sad thing is that the kid, the one who offed himself, was released because they didn't
have a bed in a pshyc facility available for him. I guess closing down all of the mental
healht care facilities and releasing all of the nut jobs in the 70's served its purpose.

That was mostly caused by a series of cases where the courts decided
involuntary commitment equated to depriving a person of liberty and
could only be imposed by due process. (14th amendment).
Subsequent laws that defined "evaluations" further restricted exactly
how long someone can be held with or without a court order.

Actually it may have been caused by a severe shortage of psychiatric
beds in Virgina as a result of cuts imposed on budgets in the last
couple of years by the governor and the state legislature, according to
the latest news.

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