Since the Reagan administration, states have closed homes for the mentally ill, saying churches and private groups would step up and care for the mentally ill.  Well, we know now, for a fact, that they haven’t stepped up.  Indeed, looks like they are retreating into their sanctified churches and safe homes. They leave the mentally ill to the criminal justice system instead.  How can a society allow the mentally ill to get arrested (for epilepsy, Tourette’s Syndrome, anger issues, etc.) and placed in prisons, where they face criminals and people who harm rather than help them?

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/8/mental-illness-prison.html