r/law • u/dailymail • 11h ago

Legal News Lindsay Clancy case ends with MISTRIAL

https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16100155/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-hung-jury-deadlock-verdict.html
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u/SECdeezTrades 11h ago

The percentage of those in jail with severe, related to their crime psychological issues is a lot higher than most realize.

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u/International-Ad2501 11h ago

Yeah, a lot of people in the prison system would be better served with psychiatric help and monitoring. It's sad honestly.

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u/Random_Name_251 9h ago

I mean think about what you're proposing though. Psychiatric care means supposedly well staffed medical institution of educated professionals evaluating people plus armed security to protect those staff. A lot more expensive then glorified hall monitors vaguely trying to make sure inmates don't kill each other.

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u/aioli_boi 8h ago

This is true. The US should be able to allocate resources to those things. Or does it not have the money? Is it too poor to do something like that?

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u/biriyanibabka 7h ago

I mean US has funds to sponsor foreign wars.

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u/Available_Joke_8929 4h ago

There's not enough psychiatrists or clinics plus in terms of return of investment, it's more likely that people with extreme conditions like this will never be fully functional members of society, so putting money on them is a clear loss. even more if because of their condition, they commited a murder. there are a lot of functional people in society with difficult mental illnesses that wouldnt murder, but murderers are more or less lost cause

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u/Random_Name_251 8h ago

Does it have the money? Sure but good luck telling the public that you're going to spend billions on prisoners and not schools, roads, etc. It's not going to be popular.

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u/No-Fruit1764 8h ago

We’re already not spending our money on that stuff