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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gideon" data-source="post: 3728732" data-attributes="member: 7898">Mental institutions are hell, which is why we shouldn't subject the entirety of our society to becoming one.A pretty significant portion of inmates in Oklahoma's prisons are ultimately just mental patients who may not have become vagrants and criminals with the right treatment. The resources are available to help people on the streets get back on their feet, but since that help comes with stipulations (sober up, stop stealing things, take your medicine) the reality is that they choose to remain in their situation. I'm also concerned with the degree to which the orgs who are paid to help have become something like a Hobo Industrial Complex which doesn't really want the problem to go away, but rather be perpetuated to keep government $$$ flowing.There isn't a solution to this problem that doesn't look like fascism.</blockquote>