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    9 months ago

    Yeah, I agree putting people in prison won’t solve addiction but that’s why I mentioned what I somewhat remember Maine doing. It’s about having a path towards rehabilitation (not in prison). Essentially you temporarily book offenders, then they get a court mandated ruling to go to these clinics to get better while they have consistent checkups. This way they get to stay out of prison while receiving treatment. I guess what I’m saying is you need the law to allow temporary detainment and to enable court rulings of certain treatments that otherwise many offenders would not receive otherwise. The problem I see isn’t with these situations it’s that oftentimes legislators are too lazy to implement laws that work to implement steps after being detained/fined. It’s lazy to put people in jail and also to simply decriminalize substances. Because when substances are decriminalized you have no legal leg to stand on when you need to force treatment and to your point being sent to prison doesn’t help either.