re: Woman or not? What say you?

Here are a couple of the good comments following the article about the woman's plight:

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When you have people that on average, probably (A) don't have good life skills (B) don't have much education (C) don't have much work experience (D) don't have a good social support network (E) do have a prison record - and you throw them out on the street with $50 and the clothes on their back and say "sink or swim" - unless they have family who aren't messed up and who can and are willing to take them in, I'd say their odds are verrry small of making it by going straight.

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Welcome to the new America, where the poor have to go to prison to get off the streets and feel safe. What a concept. Let's close down all the mental health hospitals and then figure out later what to do with the people who need the help. Well, we're already paying the 'for profit' prison industry, let's just put them all there. It's a pretty sad day when our mentally ill brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters feel safer in prison than on the streets. We have failed the most vulnerable portion of our society.

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It's a sad statement that so many mentally ill people are seeking prison as a safe place. Others, of course, are committing mass murders when they can't cope with society's pressures.