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Old Dec 10, 2010, 12:17 PM
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You know it brings up a big question about the institutionalization closures that they thought was for the best.I mean i know it was a good thing, but what about the safety of those people who had spent their life in an institution, who were just set free, with no help or anything. What about the safety of the rest of the community? It seems they just cared about making people free...but what they didnt realize was they gave people people freedom for sure, but with it also the freedom to die in the street, to harm others, to clog up other institutions like the prison system. I really think they should have turned those state run institutions into some kinda transitional housing, where people could learn everyday living skills, where they could be taken care of and be given thier medications, food, shelter, therapy. Basically just like those homeless shelters that they showed, i mean the building is there, and the state was already paying for the institution, why not just continue on, only make it volunteery instead of mandatory right?