You made a specific reference to a 60 bed facility proposal.  Saying it makes no difference whether it's 16 bed or 60 bed tells me you don't really understand the difference in impact between the two.  If you don't really think a 60 bed facility is, in fact, an institutional facility, it tells me even more about your lack of understanding.

Forensic patients are committed specifically based on the felony they have committed    showing that they are, in fact, a danger to the community.......it has everything to do with the decision whether the person represents such a significant danger that they must be placed in a secure facility.  

When you put all your money into development of locked-ward institutions and leave none for those less-restrictive and much cheaper 16 bed community based facilities, you have denied the cascade of services which needs to be available.  

I can't believe you really think there's no difference between a 16 bed and a 60 bed facility re: NIMBY...