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Originally posted by el presidente
Here's a suggestion:
Release all non-violent drug offenders to parole/probation. Use those dollars saved to hire and train the necessary personnel for an inter-correctional treatment program. One rehabilitated, they can be released and become contributing members of society.
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Agreed and related to this is that marijuana use in particular is treated as felony in many states with appropriate imprisonment. Speaking of psychotic treatment, as opposed to treatment of the psychotic, it strikes me as one of the worst horrors of our time that our government threatens to imprison over 20 million Americans because they smoke marijuana.
Our prison reform system is a miss-guided form of warehousing and torturing people that harkens back centuries, and itself so thickly deviant that it causes people and culture more problems than it ever eliminates.