Hey /news/, I don't usually browse this board, but I couldn't find anywhere else more appropriate to ask this.
http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14280403.Woman_killed_her_dog_in_hammer_and_knife_attack_on_Valentine_s_Day/
Essentially, the article is about this woman I used to be friends with, who viscously killed her dog, by hitting it in the head with a hammer twice, and stabbing it twenty times. Whether or not she was drugged up or not is unclear, although I am aware that she has a history of cocaine abuse. Furthermore, the article indicates that she may have not been mentally stable at the time of the attack, which I could easily believe.
Nevertheless, considering that a man was sentenced to three months in prison for frequently attacking his dog with a belt, according to UK law, how long do you think she will be sentenced for? Furthermore, what does the article convey to you regarding her psychological structure?
>>24594
She should go to a mental institution.
>>24613
It's illegal to throw the criminally insane in prison, I think.
>>24615
In the US it is the default.
The procedure is to ignore the mentally ill until they commit a prosecutable crime then lock them in with other violent mentally unstable people so they can kill each other.
Think of it as a form of assisted suicide.
>>24620
The prisons do that?! Doesn't sound legal.
>>24623
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/30/a-shocking-number-of-mentally-ill-americans-end-up-in-prisons-instead-of-psychiatric-hospitals/
>>24623
They aren't diagnosed and nearly everyone who can't afford an attorney are afforded the advice to plead guilty. Public defenders aren't.
>>24620
As someone who works with the mentally ill, outside of the prison system, and watches the state and federal government throw money at these people with reckless abandon, I can confirm you have zero idea what you are talking about.
>>24594
She should be in for life, damn druggie punk.
This stuff needs to be cut at the bud, in schools.