Comments on: New Way To Cut Budget: Release Prisoners

States Facing Budget Trouble Consider Releasing Inmates Early To Save Millions

[gopack443]

alcoholics are sent to prison. I''m guessing more crime committed under the influence of alcohol than any other drug.
Rehab works for those that don''t need it because they have made up there minds to quit so they will, rehab is a extortion scam to get the powers that be off the a$$ of the addict/alcoholic. that''s all it''s good for.

[tomanyt]

gopack443...Again...rehab works for those who are willing to allow it to work. Just like quiting smoking, if you don''t have the will, you will never quit.
Prison on the other hand, does nothing for an addiction. You can get drugs in prison easier than you can on the streets!!!!

[gopack443]

papabc
I agree rehab don''t work, however neither does prison.

[tomanyt]

papabc...Rehab does work! If you want it to work. If you don''t, it won''t. Seems your nephew and Daughter-in-law don''t want to get better so it isn''t going to work for them.

[tomanyt]

papabc...What is your take on alcohol? Should alcoholics be sent to prison?

[mpgeglia2]

We are wasting so much money because of the mislabeling of minor drug offenders and those with DWI''s as "criminals". Aside from chronic offenders, these people do not need to be imprisoned. I cannot believe that it is cheaper to send a drug addict to rehab than to prison, yet our judicial system opts for the latter. The war on drugs has been based on fear instead of rationality. Now America''s penitentiaries are over crowded and unsustainable. Not to mention that studies have proven that those who go into prison for non-violent crimes are more likely to commit violent crimes after their release. The American prison system is only making things worse and needs serious reform.

[tomanyt]

papabc...All of those that you mentioned are "minor" they don''t deserve long prison sentences. Thats idiotic. Killers and rapists and the like need long prison sentences. It doesn''t make sense to put a 17 year old in prison 10/15 years because he had *** with a 15 year old. There are other ways of punishing "minor" crimes with out resorting to prison. Do you really think that throwing a rock in a window is so terrible that someone should be imprison for it. How does that help our society. All prison does is make people worse then when they went in.

[papabc]

papabc...Why are drug addicts sent to prison instead of rehab?
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Rehab does not always work &

I have a nephew and have a Daughter-in-law that is addicted to meth. To feed thier addiction they steal from family, work, friends, you.

Then nephew died after 2 years of rehab. too easy to go back to friend into drugs.

The D-I-L is almost no long a family member but she still take what is not her, sell it then buys what will get her the fix. Over and over again

Rehab does not work for everyone and they do not belong in your car/house/business taking what they want.

[beehive21-2009]

Let all the convicts go who are not killers,rapist, violent,child molesters.Deploy them to camps to help fight forest fires, built roads ,slave labor,then they can go home ,once proven worthy.etc

[mpgeglia2]

We are wasting so much money because of the mislabeling of minor drug offenders and those with DWI''s as "criminals". Aside from chronic offenders, these people do not need to be imprisoned. I cannot believe that it is cheaper to send a drug addict to rehab than to prison, yet our judicial system opts for the latter. The war on drugs has been based on fear instead of rationality. Now America''s penitentiaries are over crowded and unsustainable. Not to mention that studies have proven that those who go into prison for non-violent crimes are more likely to commit violent crimes after their release. The American prison system is only making things worse and needs serious reform.