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Since the 1960s in the United States, hundreds of thousands of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat...

Sentence seriously mentally ill offenders to psychiatric treatment for the same length of time one would sentence any other offender.

The issue of forced medication is by no means new.

In coping with the explosion of deviancy in America over the past fifty years, we are normalizing what was once considered deviant and finding deviant what was once considered normal.