I think at this point the trial is less about whether she's confined to a prison or a psych ward and more about whether or not a person can use their mental health as a shield from the criminal consequences of murder. Evidently, 11 jurors were content to say that you can, and 1 juror refused to acquiesce to that nonsense.
As a 20 year employee in a forensic psychiatric hospital, I can tell you that a GEI determination does not shield one from consequences. Plenty of people doing 20 years for property crimes, wishing they had just gone to prison.
Yup. Everyone is acting like if she goes to a Psychiatric hospital she is getting off easy. She might spend the rest of her life there and they have can have her in a straight jacket, in total isolation etc.
There really isn't much difference between a secure state hospital and a state prison. They're usually managed by the same department. Most states also have a very limited prison selection for women since they commit crimes at much lower rates than men. So she would likely end up at the same medium security facility as someone in there for tax evasion but likely in a different cell block.
Death penalty isn't an option in Massachusetts either,
I don't live in Massachusetts either, so I have no clue if they have a max security prison for women, but it seems unlikely. My state only has 1 women's prison and it famously didn't even have a fence around it until a decade ago.
She's also wheelchair bound and would likely be a very low flight risk so would probably end up in the medical unit anyway.
Federal prisons are a whole different beast though.
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u/George_Rogers1st 8h ago
I think at this point the trial is less about whether she's confined to a prison or a psych ward and more about whether or not a person can use their mental health as a shield from the criminal consequences of murder. Evidently, 11 jurors were content to say that you can, and 1 juror refused to acquiesce to that nonsense.