Is the Law's long shadow on deinstitulization implicated in any way, shape or form with today's explosive outbreak of violence?

Today’s society involves many ethical dilemmas intertwined with legal ramifications. The mismanagement of health care may have resulted in the mentally ill being considered a disposal human part of today’s throwaway society. According to Pope Francis, we are a “culture of waste in which consumerism trumps compassion, people become just another disposable object, and little care is given to those who need help. ”Whereas state hospitals have become a catch all for society’s disposables - the elderly, the deaf, the blind, and the poor” deinstitutionalization is the policy behind the discharge of hundreds of thousands of state mental hospital patients from 1960s with a massive exodus of 500,000 to 100,000 mentally ill patients due to how funding driving public policy. In addition, transinstitutionalization has led to the the transfer of the mentally ill patients from the old state hospitals (over time) into the jails. Therefore, the legal, public health and ethical dilemma becomes whether we should continue keeping the mentally ill patients in jail or send them for help to a specialized mental health facility? For those who are not properly diagnosed, this presentation will analyze the extent to which they are now implicated in the current massive outbreak of violence.