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By
Carol deDelley
Can Schizophrenics be treated?
Yes.
Cured?
No.
Should they be released
to live in the community?
No. Not if they have taken
a life.
For all violent offenders,
time detained needs to fit
the offence committed. If
an individual takes a life
that individual needs to
lose their freedom for the
rest of their life.
Mentally ill individuals
are the most vulnerable
of society (next to children).
Mentally
ill individuals who are
seeking treatment and have
committed no crime, should
not be housed with criminally
insane, extremely violent
offenders. In fact, that
possibility may even prevent
some with mental illness
from seeking treatment.
Canada needs to build a
facility to house the criminally
insane where the psychiatric
community can treat them
and study them for the rest
of their lives.
Currently, the only person
responsible for a "very
disturbed' individuals care,
treatment and medication,
is that individual. Society
cannot force them into treatment
nor can society force medicate
them. They ARE responsible
for themselves. Until they
fail to comply, do something
this heinous and then they
are NOT responsible! They
cannot and should not, have
it both ways. N.C.R means
NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE,
it also means NO CRIMINAL
RECORD!
These
offenders are then removed
from the criminal system
and placed in the medical
system where they are then
referred to as patients
not criminals. That is unbelievable
and unacceptable!. They
have committed the most
serious of crimes.
The rights of the victims
and their families needs
to be considered not discarded
in favor of the "patients"
rights. The family has the
right (at their own expense)
to attend yearly reviews
of the offender's mental
state,(not easy if they
move the offender to another
province) They also have
the right to submit a victim's
impact statement,( which
is subject to being censored).
The review board is disinclined
to allow the submission
of an impact statement at
subsequent reviews, from
anyone who has not submitted
one at the offenders first
review hearing. Many are
too traumatized to prepare
one for the first review
board hearing. Canada needs
to send a message that this
is not ok and will not be
tolerated
Timothy McLean had rights
too. Tim's Law is about
Public Safety. Tim's voice
died tragically with him
that evening last July.
We all need to be his voice
now and the voice of so
many that died too soon
at the hands of Schizophrenics
and others who are found
NCR. M
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