Yet after their release, having been
confined in mental hospitals, not prisons, not only are they less likely to reoffend than disordered inmates, but they are even less recidivist than offenders without a recognized mental illness.
Not exact matches
That means he's remain
confined in a secure
mental hospital until doctors deem him ready for trial.
According to one former detainee, Viktor Fainberg,
confining political activists
in a
mental hospital not only punished the offenders, but also discredited their ideas
in the eyes of the Soviet public which, by and large, has a rather intolerant attitude to
mental illness.
The project cataloged 57,031 items of old evidence that were previously undocumented and the work resulted
in the exoneration of an innocent man who was wrongly
confined at a state
mental health
hospital for 20 years.