Prisons are the largest de facto psychiatric hospitals in the United States, so this is very good news.
Greenburger later told me, the prosecutor had “sent me on a fool’s errand. None existed.”
Is this for real? There are no locked treatment facilities for convicted mentally ill people in the US? 
We have plenty of them. They’re called prisons.
That’s shocking and very unethical. But I’m sure I saw a treatment facility for convicted mentally ill people in the US in a documentary by Louis Theroux…
Is this more the exception than the rule, though? Or is the difference that people “acquitted by reason of insanity” and people convicted but mentally ill are not treated the same way?
It’s the exception to the rule.
As I write this there are over 2,200,000 people in prison in the U.S., many having a mental illness. Thus the few treatment centers that do exist can only accommodate a tiny fraction of the people who need those services.
It’s a national disgrace.