On the government’s not being able to come up with a viable solution for the mental patients, to place them in protective custody or to, release them “back into the wild” again…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The man from Pingdong physically assaulted a female cashier at a super convenience shop, injured her eyes, because he is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and had prior violence actions on record. This showed, how the justice system has that huge hole in dealing with those who have mental conditions.
Based off of Regulation 41 of Psychiatric Health Law, the local offices of health and sanitations can force hospitalization on those who risk hurting others and/or themselves. It’s just, that based off of section four of rule three, the “severely ill” is defined by those who are detached from reality, to behaving and thinking weird, there’s NO clarification for those who can’t handle their own businesses. To avoid the debates, the force hospitalization needed to get signed of by the Central Agency’s evaluation board.
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And, only after the evaluations, and the conclusions of the individual’s behaviors will be harming to the self, as well as others, then, forced hospitalizations will be, enforced. But the longest period at a time is only for sixty days, and even if there’s an extension given to the stays, there is the process of an even stricter evaluation, and, in that there’s no unlimited extended stay, the individuals are still, transferred, into, the local units in the communities. But in current times, and in the futures, do we have enough medical provisions set up completely, this is, a problem we must, face.
And, to prevent the criminal actions of the mental patients, like the killing of the police of Taiwanese Railroad, based off of the first of Penal Code 19, if the individual, when acting out, is under a mental condition, to the point of unable to judge right from wrong, or control one’s own behaviors, found guilty, based off of Penal Code 87, the judge can place the individual into protective custody. And, the time limited of this is only, five years, and, even if, by the end of five years, the corrections of the individuals hadn’t been fully made, the individual is still, released, which becomes, a huge problem of the society again.
To solve this, the legislature would need to eliminate the roof limits of the hospitalization, and evaluate by the year, until the risks of repeatedly offending gets, completely, lowered. But, if the law gets amended like so, then, it will get trapped into the long-term, life-sentence predicament, which will, alter the rules of five-year-limit that the systems has now. But, how many years do the system extend the stay to, that’s, always, a hard debate.
Whether it be eliminating the rooftop limit or raising the number of years, under the conditions of the local facilities unable to shoulder these responsibilities, we’d needed the psych wards of the national government to step in. It’s just, that NOBODY would want such a psychiatric institution next to their own home, so building of this, mental institution would prove to be, difficult as well.
What we need to think on harder is, the overemphasis of elongating the periods of time in protective custody, if the risks of repeatedly offending stays high, that meant, there’s only, limited effects to keeping these mentally ill individuals under protective custody, and in the end, the return back to the community to treat is still, needed. It’s just, how do we, take away the doubts, the worries of the local residents of the communities, this is, testing the ability, the stamina, and the intelligence of the facilities in charge of this matter.
This will, pose as a huge problem to the society, because you do NOT know when these mentally ill people will have a relapse, and started acting out violent, and hurt others, or themselves, and, we can’t, just lock them all up, and throw away the keys, or put them on medications, because the medications usually have the adverse side effects, that these patients eventually, take themselves off of the meds, and then, they started, acting UP again, so, the institutionalization of these mentally ill individuals, is only, a short-term solution, and the government still hadn’t come up with a way that works yet.
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