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Insane men get jail while criminal women get psychiatric care
posted by Matt on 10:06 PM September 10th, 2005
Inequality I read this and thought, "Gee, would they have thrown the book at this person like this if he had been a she?"

Of course not.

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DOJ (Score:1)
by johnnyp on 07:03 AM September 12th, 2005 EST (#1)
A Department of Justice report says that men get longer prison sentences.
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by SacredNaCl (tbessR3m0Ve2SendNEIN[SPAM]@R3m0ve.2.sendAt.mail.ru) on 01:47 PM September 12th, 2005 EST (#2)
Long history of bipolar seemed to be about the only condition the court recognizes anymore, and that a jury will accept that the perso is 'normal enough but still crazy momentarily', and as a plea to serious crimes its still a very low percentage batter for men. Very rarely works for things like traffic fatalities and the like. I've seen people convicted that could pass the old test of "Is it a fireplug or a person?".

His problem was Crazy + Gun = someone they want off the street and afraid the hospital would release them, not that a lot of people don't end up spending far more time in those than they would in prison.


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