Government protecting the weak?

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/02/iraqi-police-fi.html

I am a supporter of government protecting weaker individuals from more powerful individuals/organizations; it is only logical that I be in support of the institutionalization of children and the mentally handicapped- but I am not.
A better word to use would be treatment, not institutionalization. But, I can not attest to the quality of care these people will recieve.
Additionally, this action is being taken as a panacea to a larger problem- the goal is not social justice, it is prevention of policy breakdown. True, people will benefit from the fact that al-Qaeda will have less resources; but if programs were more effectively put into place to help the homeless, and mentall ill then al-Qaeda would not have had that resource in the first place.
I hope that in the last several months (the time span between the article about the orphanage and now) the condition of Iraqi institutions has greatly improved, otherwise these children and mentally handicap people will be punished simply for being victims of a social system that denies them justice.