Archibald: Alabama says it’s tough on drug crime. It just perpetuates it.
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It's ineffective, expensive, inhumane and unfair.

Alabama suffers crime because of drugs, it punishes people because of drugs, it builds billion dollar prisons and signs billion dollar prison healthcare deals because its justice system is overrun by the consequences of drugs. It forces people to spend lifetimes in prison because of drugs, it uses the presence of drugs as an excuse to put addicts back inside, and if it put a fraction of the effort into rehabilitation it would save more people, more money and more families.

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  • Suspiciousbrowsing@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Drug use is often just a symptom of self medication for mental health disorders (obviously not always). Punishing people and then pushing them back out to the community clearly doesn’t work.
    So perhaps look at addressing the cause rather than the symptoms.