(03-29-2015, 05:13 PM)Catherine Wrote: Six more months in jail won't change that. He belongs in a psychiatric hospital for as long as it takes to protect the rest of us.I agree. Prisons often only expose people to more criminals, who share experiences, are brutal to each other, and plan future crimes: schools for crime, if you like. Associating mentally ill people such as this young man with hardened criminals, without any treatment, could actually make him a bigger danger.
Prison sentences may make soothe the public into thinking "justice has been done" (and a false sense of security), but it is far more important that the root cause of this man's illness should be eliminated before he is considered fit for release.
This young man is a danger not only to animals, but after this short sentence also a risk to humans. He needs long-term psychiatric treatment to face up to and eliminate this pleasure in inflicting cruelty on helpless animals.
