"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Further, virtually all of the inmates are drug free upon release.

Documentation please, that Texas, alone in the universe, is able to keep
drugs out of its prisons.

There are two national drug treatment facilities. One in Ft Worth, the
other in Leavenworth. The BEST success rate for these national centers
(drug-free after being released for one year) is six percent.

Cite?

Compare this to the 30% of released criminals who do not return to prison
and you'll see that jail has a better outcome than treatment for
addiciton.

I don't see that because you're pulling numbers out of thin air, and you're
the guy who said the U.S. Coast Guard was in effect the 2nd largest navy in
the world or whatever it was you posted. If you can back up these numbers,
fine, but I'm going to need something other than dimly remembered stats from
some LE seminar in a previous century. To start with you need to show that
convicts who don't go back to prison are not using drugs on the outside, and
the only way to prove that is if they're all peeing in a cup forever.

Plus, putting people in prison for extended terms actually SAVES the
taxpayer money in reduced crime.

People whose only crime is possession of a banned drug for their own
consumption don't belong in prison in the first place. If they're holding
up liquor stores that is another matter, but if all they're doing is using a
street drug then prison is a waste of public money. If you have a couple of
shots of Old Overcoat in the evening while watching The Good Guys it doesn't
cause society any problems, ditto if you smoked a joint instead. Let's save
prison for those who actually harm others.