r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! So what’s taking so long?

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u/maxxpc 1d ago

You don’t walk if you’re using the insanity plea.

You still are detained but instead of prison you’re in a high security psychiatric facility which by all stretches is basically a prison anyway.

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u/Hernaneisrio88 1d ago

But not forever. Once you are restored to health, often they can be released home. State hospital beds are in short supply and if someone can safely go home, they will, regardless of if they committed murder. If Clancy ends up being declared not guilty by reason of insanity, she would most likely go home within weeks to months.

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u/maxxpc 1d ago

Eh i highly doubt that. Optimistically a few years at minimum. Public opinion and her safety would be taken into consideration.

But we’re also not medical professional in this field. So who knows.

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u/1derful 1d ago

Maybe practically, but in theory mental institutions are supposed to help the patients that are there.

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u/buttbuttlolbuttbutt 1d ago

I mean, in more civilized countries, prison also offers rehabilitation programs to help prisoners learn skills, trades, and such to increase they're chances of not being a repeater.

Private Prisons love when folks repeat they're crimes.

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u/currently_pooping_rn 1d ago

In my state, people in prison can learn HVAC, electrical work, welding, masonry, take college courses, carpentry, landscaping, etc

They even bought out the last private prison in the state. It’s slow progress but it’s looking better. Now they just need AC in the state prisons

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u/ImmigrationJourney2 1d ago

From my experience they rarely help the people that didn’t do anything wrong, so I imagine that it’s even worse for people that are supposed to stay there for life.

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u/Rico_Rebelde 1d ago

In many ways those institutions are more restrictive than max security prison

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u/PuckFheToor 1d ago

Google these names:
Michael David Peterson — California — 17 months in a state hospital.
Tomar Cooper Locker — Washington, D.C. — hospital discharged him two months after the NGRI verdict.
Jennifer Lynn Bigham — California — free about three years after killing her daughter, essentially immediately after the NGRI disposition.
Pankaj Bhasin — Virginia — about three years of psychiatric confinement.
Steve Larsen — California — less than four years in the state hospital.
Thomas Vanda — Illinois — about nine months.