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“[People] clearly believe that their passage through the legal system will somehow be easier if they are presumed insane. Which is a naive, yet somehow common misconception that many suspects make when facing serious charges. They have this notion that a plea of insanity will either lessen the severity of their punishment, or liberate them from it altogether. That instead of being sent to prison, they would simply be released back into society. Perhaps with a free psycho-therapeutic program to attend on the weekends. This is of course a far cry from reality. In the United States, if you’re found responsible for a serious offense, but also found not guilty of the crime by reason of insanity, you will be institutionalized at a high security psychiatric facility. These institutions are without question some of the darkest and most disturbing places in the system. And if you’re not actually suffering from the crippling affects of mental illness, living in this type of environment will be a mentally agonizing experience. The foresight of what occurs inside these units would make the majority wish to avoid them. But once you are in, it is very hard to get out. And you will have to serve the same, if not a greater amount, amount of time thag you would have had to serve at a regular prison. So to put it briefly, if you commit a serious offense and then pretend to be crazy in order to get away with it, your life from that point forward will be an extremely dark and uncomfortable existence. Whether you managed to fool the system or not.” -JCS Criminal Psychology