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Mentally ill people need supportive friends, a good doctor/therapist team, productive hobbies and lots of sunlight. Drugging them up and locking them away is counterproductive. They will end up wrongly admitting anyone for years and charge them afterwards to generate a profit.
Please stop spreading misinformation. You clearly don’t understand the system. As I explained in my other reply to you on this post, that’s just not how involuntary commitments work. Commitments beyond a few days are difficult, beyond a week requires such crazy evidence that some who could benefit from it don’t get it, and beyond a few weeks/a month is incredibly rare.
Obviously we need wraparound community services, but you’re pushing an outdated fiction about institutionalization.
Currently, involuntary holds are 72 hours unless a judge specifies otherwise. The goal of the Trump admin is to allow this to lock up homeless people long term- SCOTUS is on their side and will help them do it. We already illegally detain people at the border and in places like Guantanamo Bay, so what's stopping them and the private prison industry from implementing this?
As I said, SCOTUS has already held its illegal. I’ve seen no case challenging that, let alone one that’s made it to a high level of appeal. Holds are up to 72 hours, meaning you see a judge by the 72nd hour. Like I said, it’s often before that. Getting a judge to extend the hold is insanely hard. The fact that they were able to extend yours speaks to how rough your situation was. I’m sorry if that sounds harsh, but I’m not trying to mince words