08-19-2016, 12:53 PM
rjmacs wrote:
[quote=fauch]
Maybe we should start moving away from prison as a whole and find more effective methods of behavior modification and crime deterrence.
Like universal healthcare and addiction treatment? Publicly funded suboxone/methadone? Wraparound services including housing and job training for those who end up in criminal court because of poverty and/or mental health-substance abuse problems?
I'm all for it. Wasn't so sure you'd be.
We are already paying out the ass to keep these people in jail and deal with the fallout to society from that. If there are cheaper preventative methods to tackling these problems, then by all means go for it. It's not like we are saving money or bettering society this way. Lose Lose all around.