It truly is tragic the way many people are simply thrown in a cell rather than helped with what is clearly an illness. So true. The privatization of jails in t

It truly is tragic the way many people are simply thrown in a cell rather than helped with what is clearly an illness. So true. The privatization of jails in the US seems to be the root cause of this. Private jails want to increase profits, so they lobby for “3 strikes” laws that play well for politicians who want to seem “tough on crime”. The end result is a lot more people in jail, but without the reduction in crime and certainly absent of actually helping people stop their drug habits.