The deinstitutionalization of people with mental illness was good in that it’s not right for so many people living with a mental illness to be forced into such an oppressive life.
It doesn’t mean that it was right to take away health insurance or health care access for the sake of “saving money.”
Prisons don’t afford mental health access in many situations.
It’s sad that prison ends up being the new asylum.
Progress. Progress. Progress. May we talk about that, instead please?