Drug Response
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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This is in response to Kay Creamer.
Let me guess, Mrs. Creamer, your solution to the drug problem is “if you build they will come.” Do you even know that the United States has more citizens incarcerated than anywhere else in the world? It sounds to me like our government does have the funding to keep building facilities to incarcerate Americans. Could it be that our law makers are talking the wrong approach? It cost $28,000 a year to incarcerate an inmate for a year. Why not have this money to try to treat non-violent drug offenders? It is proven that treatment facilities do work!
I feel like the best option to prevent overcrowding in prisons would be to build treatment facilities in Indiana and get approval from state and federal government to use these funds that are used to incarcerate non-violent drug offenders to put these people in a treatment facility. If something like this isn’t done soon, prisons will be overpopulated and this will put a huge strain on the economy. We would all agree that we need to have lots of funding for people who really need to be in prison.
I don’t know if you have paid much attention lately, it sure looks like sex crimes on children are on the rise every day. I think we should make sure we secure a hole behind the walls for these scum bags. As we have learned they even wear badges sometimes. Don’t you somewhat agree, Mrs. Creamer? There has to be another way, right? The current system just doesn’t seem to work very well.
I would also like to bring to Cheryl Brown’s attention that extra tax money doesn’t have to be applied to drug courts. The same money used to incarcerate should be used to rehabilitate, not incarcerate! To throw people in jail is the old school approach. In my opinion, it’s almost like burning an alleged witch on a stake! You should try to think outside the box, Cheryl. The current plan is not working but opinions are like knees and elbows - everybody has them! Addiction is a mental disease. Every college teaches you this the last time I checked, right?
Jason Bridgewater
Carlisle[[In-content Ad]]
This is in response to Kay Creamer.
Let me guess, Mrs. Creamer, your solution to the drug problem is “if you build they will come.” Do you even know that the United States has more citizens incarcerated than anywhere else in the world? It sounds to me like our government does have the funding to keep building facilities to incarcerate Americans. Could it be that our law makers are talking the wrong approach? It cost $28,000 a year to incarcerate an inmate for a year. Why not have this money to try to treat non-violent drug offenders? It is proven that treatment facilities do work!
I feel like the best option to prevent overcrowding in prisons would be to build treatment facilities in Indiana and get approval from state and federal government to use these funds that are used to incarcerate non-violent drug offenders to put these people in a treatment facility. If something like this isn’t done soon, prisons will be overpopulated and this will put a huge strain on the economy. We would all agree that we need to have lots of funding for people who really need to be in prison.
I don’t know if you have paid much attention lately, it sure looks like sex crimes on children are on the rise every day. I think we should make sure we secure a hole behind the walls for these scum bags. As we have learned they even wear badges sometimes. Don’t you somewhat agree, Mrs. Creamer? There has to be another way, right? The current system just doesn’t seem to work very well.
I would also like to bring to Cheryl Brown’s attention that extra tax money doesn’t have to be applied to drug courts. The same money used to incarcerate should be used to rehabilitate, not incarcerate! To throw people in jail is the old school approach. In my opinion, it’s almost like burning an alleged witch on a stake! You should try to think outside the box, Cheryl. The current plan is not working but opinions are like knees and elbows - everybody has them! Addiction is a mental disease. Every college teaches you this the last time I checked, right?
Jason Bridgewater
Carlisle[[In-content Ad]]
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