Originally Posted by
SvN
If someone goes to a therapist, doctor, whoever and says "I feel a massive urge to _______, please help me" where the blank can be any of the horrific crimes discussed in this thread, then they are quite rightly locked up. Yes, they should be given help when they're incarcerated. But it's not like mental health is an exact science. There isn't a pill you can take to cure you. So the priority is making sure you don't pose a risk to the public - and you can only really do that by removing the person from society.
I think you're combining two issues here where they don't need to be. Yes, the stigma around mental health in this country is crap. I would like it to change. But I don't see how that ties in with locking up dangerous people.