<1% of people who use insanity defenses are successful
that being said some of those cases have been absolutely crucial in setting precedents that may or may not save a guilty person from jail in the future so tbh it is a rather important issue if you care about the criminal justice system
my personal belief is a very idealistic one and if i was given power of the world i'm not sure i would implement it tbh. i feel as though everything people are born as should be taken at face value. got an mental illness? outside of friends/families/private organizations you should be treated exactly the same by the government. killed your family because of "insanity"? you should go to jail undoubtedly. i believe if you show interest in partaking in therapy and rehabilitation your jail sentence should be altered slightly (think if you got 25 years, you serve 20 and then 5 in a hospital) assuming your insanity defense was accepted. but to completely shift blame off of somebody WHO'S FAULT IT WAS is asinine imo.
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