Well .. we could build these things called prisons and use them. However, for some reason, saying this obvious thing makes you 'the bad guy' in Washington and m

Well .. we could build these things called prisons and use them. However, for some reason, saying this obvious thing makes you 'the bad guy' in Washington and my home state of Oregon. It's almost as if people here refuse to see that there are individuals who cannot be left to their own devices. And until we figure it out, these kinds of problems will continue to compound as the social fabric slowly weathers EDIT, since Hacker news won't let me respond: Oregon is actually short of prisons and prison staff (simply not funded) and, in Portland at least, we've stopped imprisoning arrestees because we don't have enough prison space or staff to support them: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/multnomah-county-jail-halted-booking-suspects-monday-due-to-low-staffing-levels/ar-AA1fh1kz https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/multnomah-county-jail-halt... Moreover, we don't have staffing to imprison or sentence people in the first place: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-11-23/oregon-public-defender-shortage-nearly-300-cases-dismissed https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-11-23/oregon-pu... Oregon prisons are overcrowded (which indicates the state is not spending enough money to imprison people): http://www.shortlawgroup.com/Articles/Understanding-the-problem-of-Oregon-s-overcrowded-prison-system.shtml http://www.shortlawgroup.com/Articles/Understanding-the-prob... It's not that Oregon doesn't have the money, it's that it refuses to spend it. It had $5B extra this year that could have been spent on jails: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2023/05/17/what-to-know-about-oregon-tax-rebate-kicker-governor-legislature-check-payment/70229353007/ https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2023/05... In California, another state known for wildfires, people are only serving 10-15% of their sentences due to overcrowding (i.e., not investing in prison space): https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-releasing-thousands-of-inmates-early-to-relieve-overcrowded-jails-prison-crime-corrections-realignment/ https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-releasi...