A TV reporter is interviewing students about the insanity plea.If these students are similar to about 90 percent of the population, which of the following statements will they agree with?
A) If someone successfully pleads insanity, he or she will spend more time in a mental hospital than in a jail.
B) There are more mentally ill people in prisons than in mental hospitals.
C) The insanity defence is not used in enough cases.Too many mentally ill people are in jail instead of in hospitals.
D) Too many people escape responsibility for their crimes by pleading insanity.
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