Locking them up keeps them from committing crimes against me or my family while incarcerated. We need to deal with the reality of people who are repeat offenders. The judge's "put him on a bus" strategy didn't prevent crimes, just offloaded those crimes to a different jurisdiction.
Always happy to talk. I think I'll need to do another post on this some day as it is.
Anything in particular? I looked at your own page and I don't know a great deal specifically about disability except that, again, most jails aren't really set up to handle it (money, staffing...)
Jails aren’t set up to handle disabilities, and most prisons are so old that they are not ADA accessible. Consider that for many, the only ada accessible units are the ones in solitary confinement.
I’m curious about anything you’d write honestly! I look forward to the next post!
A recurring theme in my conversations with everyone is that the public largely doesn't want to spend the money on criminals. Which on the one hand I do understand. Not exactly the "deserving poor" here. But on the other hand, public safety is one of the things we create governments to provide.
Was talking to our jailer -here we elect them, don't know about where you live -a month back and we discussed the difficulty of even getting people to talk about quality of prisons and jails. He's currently at about half his authorized staffing level, which causes many problems. Again, nothing specific to disability, but he mentioned that detox is supposed to have constant supervision and he can't rotate his guards because he doesn't have enough. They've been lucky that no one has had a serious medical emergency while coming down off anything, but he figures its just a matter of time.
He and the last jailer have been talking about the problem at every public meeting for 5 or 6 years. But the public hasn't come around yet.
I feel like sometimes we still look at addiction as something that deserves incarceration rather than treatment. I am looking specifically at non-violent offenses driven by addiction, when talking about it. I believe that if we provided more treatment options rather than straight imprisonment, then we would be able to address other needs inside prisons and jails.
"Locking them up achieves nothing"
Locking them up keeps them from committing crimes against me or my family while incarcerated. We need to deal with the reality of people who are repeat offenders. The judge's "put him on a bus" strategy didn't prevent crimes, just offloaded those crimes to a different jurisdiction.
I’d love to discuss this more in depth with you!
Always happy to talk. I think I'll need to do another post on this some day as it is.
Anything in particular? I looked at your own page and I don't know a great deal specifically about disability except that, again, most jails aren't really set up to handle it (money, staffing...)
Jails aren’t set up to handle disabilities, and most prisons are so old that they are not ADA accessible. Consider that for many, the only ada accessible units are the ones in solitary confinement.
I’m curious about anything you’d write honestly! I look forward to the next post!
A recurring theme in my conversations with everyone is that the public largely doesn't want to spend the money on criminals. Which on the one hand I do understand. Not exactly the "deserving poor" here. But on the other hand, public safety is one of the things we create governments to provide.
Was talking to our jailer -here we elect them, don't know about where you live -a month back and we discussed the difficulty of even getting people to talk about quality of prisons and jails. He's currently at about half his authorized staffing level, which causes many problems. Again, nothing specific to disability, but he mentioned that detox is supposed to have constant supervision and he can't rotate his guards because he doesn't have enough. They've been lucky that no one has had a serious medical emergency while coming down off anything, but he figures its just a matter of time.
He and the last jailer have been talking about the problem at every public meeting for 5 or 6 years. But the public hasn't come around yet.
I feel like sometimes we still look at addiction as something that deserves incarceration rather than treatment. I am looking specifically at non-violent offenses driven by addiction, when talking about it. I believe that if we provided more treatment options rather than straight imprisonment, then we would be able to address other needs inside prisons and jails.