Letter to Editor-Orange County Register

Comments sent to the O. C. Register’s Opinion editor

Name: Karen Leonard
Email: karenl53@comcast.net
City: Willits
Subject: Treating the Mentally Ill
Comments: My thanks and great appreciation go to Mr. Carona for his courage to report the truth about our inflexible and damaging correctional system(a misnomer if ever there was one!). Our own society should be diagnosed as somewhat schizophrenic- we say we stand for truth and justice and heap horrendous abuses on the most helpless in our society. Although the facts concerning the abuse of treating mentally ill patients by incarcerating them does not move society to action, the realization that this system ends up costing us much more will certainly get the public’s outrage going.