Why don’t mental asylums have bars on the windows like jails do?
I notice that jails are all barred up around. I don’t know why mental asylums in hospitals aren’t barred up like the jails are.
What you call a "mental asylum" does not exist any more. Turn of the century style mental facilities were in many ways like prisons with cells, bars, and armed guards. As our understanding of mental illnesses grew so did our approach to housing those effected by them. Modern mental health facilities are basically hospitals equipped with what is known as "unapparent" security measures, like RFID tagging for patients, which alerts staff if a patient wanders out of a designated area, bullet-proof / shatter-proof glass on all external doors and windows and various other disguised implementations so patients do not feel as if they are trapped there, which is a major psychological factor for reducing patients desire to escape the facility, which about 90% have no desire or the mental capacity to do in the first place.
some have bars or screens, depending on the level of care
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I worked in one
Too easy the inmates escaped and are now politicians
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What you call a "mental asylum" does not exist any more. Turn of the century style mental facilities were in many ways like prisons with cells, bars, and armed guards. As our understanding of mental illnesses grew so did our approach to housing those effected by them. Modern mental health facilities are basically hospitals equipped with what is known as "unapparent" security measures, like RFID tagging for patients, which alerts staff if a patient wanders out of a designated area, bullet-proof / shatter-proof glass on all external doors and windows and various other disguised implementations so patients do not feel as if they are trapped there, which is a major psychological factor for reducing patients desire to escape the facility, which about 90% have no desire or the mental capacity to do in the first place.
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