I don't know where Eliza or Michael are from ... but I do know that in Canada prisoners are very well screened in regards to mental problems and those that do have mental issues are incarcerated in hospitals for the criminally insane and are released when and if they are deemed mentally fit to integrate back into society.

What are the reasons we have prisons ... to segregate individuals who have broken the laws of our country into a controlled environment for a period of time dependant on the severity of the crime they did and try to rehabilitate them so they can integrate back into our society.

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