State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

Needless to say, people don’t go by choice, can’t leave when they want. Might be a concentration camp instead of a jail, since there’s no legal reason to force somebody into it:

As Mr. Shumway describes it, nearly two-thirds of the 1,300 homeless people potentially sent to the site could be there for involuntary treatment. About 400 beds would be set aside for psychiatric treatment. Another 400 beds would provide substance abuse treatment “as an alternative to jail,” he said, with entry and exit “not voluntary.”

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    In an interview at his Salt Lake City office, Mr. Shumway, 53, toggled between the language of the boardroom and the pulpit. He said a “management consulting approach” would make homeless services more efficient (“we nerd out on things like Six Sigma and lean process re-engineering”), measuring individual progress through a system of behavioral targets he calls “the pathway to human thriving.”

    They’re going to murder them.

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      we nerd out on things like Six Sigma and lean process re-engineering

      Oh, god, one of those assholes. The long-running joke about Agile, Lean, Scrum, and some of these other processes is that they are run much like a cult, but if you work somewhere that has been infected with them, you either have to find or set up another job without this poison, or you have to at least parrot the bullshit.

      It’s like a combo of Lysenkoism mixed with Amway…also, just like Republicanism or Communism, the process can never fail, it’s only people that fail the process… 🙄

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      In some cases I’m sure, but the more common result will probably be long term imprisonment and servitude. They’ll set these people up to fail one way or another.