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Originally Posted by Startup
That a murderer is insane does not make the victim any less dead. If the length of incarceration is 8 1/3 to 25 for murder, and the defendant should not be allowed to avoid incarceration because he or she was mentally insane at the time of the murder. Instead, we should incarcertate the insane person in a hospital until he or she is well, and then he or she should complete the term in prison.
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Knowing the loonie bin system in the US very little, I can only imagine that this is not a place to get well if you are sick, especially once you are commited by a court it will take forever to get out. I don't think the bin is any less horrific than the pen, but agree that they should not be released pre-maturely. On the other hand, do we have statistics that provide how many "insane" offenders were released before their prison terms would have been up? This may be a nice idea for a dissertation....