See The Connection?

The former chief of police told me personally that St. Joseph, Missouri was the "model city"  and various changes that were envisioned by the government for a large scale were implemented in this town to gauge public response and improve efficient application.  St. Joseph, MO was a grant funded city that had not progressed in nearly a century.  What had been a thriving river city at the turn of the 20th century had actually diminished in population and much of the industry was in utter decline.

For those who continue to fail to see the correlation between government health, mental health, gun control, and the prison system, I invite you to read the following excerpt and visit the (dot gov page.)

>>>The picture above is an architect's rendering of Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center (NMPRC). NMPRC is a 108-bed psychiatric hospital that provides long-term inpatient care for adults.

The new campus was completed and occupied in July of 1997. It replaced the old St. Joseph State Hospital directly across the street, which had housed the hospital since 1874. The old campus is now a Department of Corrections facility. <<<

To view the image:  http://dmh.mo.gov/nmprc/index.htm

The phrase "long term care" frequently means, confinement with no release date, at all.  Unlike the prison system, in which a person is given a sentence of days, months, or years, psychiatry is subjective, and indefinite confinement is labeled "inpatient care."