Herring is getting the treatment he should be getting, and Maurice Ashmore isn't. That's a function of the fact that the state has lost those forensic beds. |
If people with mental illness can't access the services, it doesn't matter how good those services are. It simply means that we're good in theory only and not in a practical, meaningful way. |
Mr. Herring had the resources to do something that other folks can't. The mental health system is so clogged up that, for a lot of people who don't have the means, they end up sitting in a jail getting what little services they can. |