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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As much as you joke, I really think we need to rehabilitate the asylum, and it's something I've thought a lot about in recent years.

[–]lunarstrain 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We sort of have them on a smaller scale in most western countries. If your insanity plea is successful, you get locked in a psychiatric facility for however long you're sentenced. The infamous MTF serial killer Beate/Wolfgang "The Pink Giant" Schmidt spent 15 years locked in one over in Germany. I've heard that the conditions are worse than jail, at least in the US.