In the US, for instance, the mentally ill are being herded into prisons, the new mental hospitals.  How is it in your land?   Anyway, this whole thing is a shame because, on one hand, conservatives talk about private institutions helping the mentally ill, but they don't, and liberals cannot get the whole pre-Reagan situation (I think.) where the mentally ill were in mental hospitals.

What do you all feel about this?  What can be done?  Why does it seem like churches and other private institutions are not doing enough?