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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    • ZK686@lemmy.world
      15·
      9 months ago

      “Homeless people are on drugs and alcohol, but we should just have sympathy for them because it’s not their fault.”

        • ZK686@lemmy.world
          15·
          9 months ago

          Sure, I’ll mind my own business… if those same homeless people will stop coming up to me asking for money, stop using drugs around my work, stop drinking alcohol and yelling at people, and stop shitting and pissing on the building I work at.