in the '80s the supreme Court said you can't hold people against their will unless they've committed a crime and crazy people had typically committed no crime 

so they shut down the nut houses and let them all loose and now they live in the forests all through my beloved City of Austin Texas 

the city greenbelts are full of needles and shopping carts 

everybody blamed Ronald Reagan at the time but really it was the supreme Court and in fact it was a liberal Justice that was the swing vote on the supreme Court that caused this problem 

the case that started the problem was that some man had put his wife and stepchildren in The nut House on trumped up evidence that they couldn't fight because they didn't seem credible after they'd been in the asylum for a while 

apparently this was a common way to get rid of an annoying wife and her annoying kids