I have never heard of anything like this before. Seems wild. Reminds me of the way Mitnick was treated, thinking he was some sort of nuclear threat with his hacking skills.
The time these charges carry is excessive and cruel.
He's demonstrated repeatedly that he is both dangerous and determined not to stop.
It's important to note: this is not a life sentence. It's a section 37/41. https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/cou...
> A section 37/41 lasts until you are discharged by the Mental Health Tribunal or by your responsible clinician. If your responsible clinician thinks you should be discharged, they will need to get permission from the Ministry of Justice.
Instead of throwing him behind bars, they've put him in a place where he can get the dedicated psychiatric help he needs, and will be released once he's had it.
Yet somehow that was the wrong thing to do?
In fact, his autism should preclude him from a sentence in prison or a mental institution. As both of these settings will be much more stressful than they would be for anyone else.
Italicizing doesn't give more weight to your attempted point.
We need to know the details on the harassing and stalking before society would agree that an open ended sentence to a mental institution is fair. In spite of italicizing. Was he physically "stalking" people or sending snippy emails to people who he thinks bother him? Social judgement of this situation needs to transcend potential abuse of language.