Now , not only are many mentally ill folks homeless (thanks Saint Reagan!!), we are also seeing many psychotic folks placed in nursing homes and prisons which dosn't benefit anyone involved. The lucky ones are in residential settings, but when they have a break, good luck finding a psych bed. The old hospitals were far from perfect, but it seems in roughly 20 years we have gone from too many psych beds to not enough. Welcome to 3rd world USA. Happy 4th y'all, and let's not even talk about all the young war vets coming home with PTSD and worse.