Committed Quote by Martin Mayer

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative…

— Cecily McMillan

In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Mental health courts exist because the system has failed. If these people were being treated, they wouldn't end up with misdemeanor charges or felony…

— E. Fuller Torrey

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

— Marshall McLuhan

I cannot imagine any situation in America where the accused cannot have counsel and call their own witnesses. I have fought in countries around…

— Michael Waltz

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

— Keith Olbermann

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

— Anonymous

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

— Hillary Clinton

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve…

— Thomas Szasz

I'm wary when legislators say the solution to school shootings is mental health care, because it suggests that people who are mentally ill are…

— Tina Smith

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison.…

— George Bernard Shaw