The B.C. government has announced it will expand involuntary care for those with mental health and addictions issues, and will open “highly secure” facilities to house people detained under the Mental Health Act throughout the province.
“I’m extremely disappointed about it… especially when there are so many other things that the government has been told that they can do to address issues of mental health and addiction that they’re refusing to do… but now they’re pumping a ton of money potentially into these new involuntary care beds in prisons – which is not going to solve the problems that we have systemically.”
