Aurora shootings suspect to enter insanity plea

It has been reported that the psychiatrist he was seeing prior to the event had become concerned about his fantasies of mass killing and
reported him to the police.

Someone dropped the ball maybe?

I say, "INSANE." I don't much care if his life sentence is in a psychiatric hospital or Supermax. The hospital I once worked in
was not all that different from a prison. At best it was a pretend hospital. The doors were heavy steel with heavy deadbolts, windows were barred with steel bars,
and employees had to have special keys to the doors, and we had to lock ourselves in the employee restroom for our safety. We were required to keep the keys tied to our belts so they could not be snatched.

When I once visited a state pen. the inmates at least (where I was) had jobs and assignment and even some "luxury" privileges like being able to make their own coffee if they behaved.

In the psch hospital the residents got lousy food, slept on the floor (it was overcrowded),
didn't wear regular clothes or prison like uniforms, and as best I could tell had nothing at all to do but stare vacantly at whatever it was
in their imagining.

Yes, that was before we began letting folks out into the community, and it was ugly. A similar situation would not be lenient for Mr. Holmes. Maybe hardly better than an isolation cell in SuperMax. Keep in mind that the orderlies (of that day) probably earned less than the prison guards. They weren't too into being nice to the patients.

My daily nightmare was the thought of getting trapped in that place after regular work hours.