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RE: Lawmakers In Virginia Want To Establish A New Court To Deal With Drug Offenders

in #politics7 years ago

Odds are it won't happen. Prisons have been contracted out to private companies and the contract is that they will have a certain vacancy rate. If that rate goes too high the company will put out. See link

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html

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this drug court in particular has already been est👍 just waiting on its first participants to be processed

If it works I'm for it, I can't see how they lock people up for drug crimes that don't hurt others. What I mean is if someone is locked up for smoking a joint. If it is a person selling heroin to high school kids, that's a different story.

that is what they've been doing for decades. Possession and trafficking for ex are acts that don't involve victims.