We need to be spending the money on education, treatment and child welfare (getting kids out, or teaching them alternatives to criminal lifestyles).
Problem is you can't just take the money from the prison/jail systems and throw it at the other programs without a plan - and no one seem to want to fund the planning to make it work!
And I don't know that there ARE any victimless crimes - even the non-violent, property only crimes make victims, if at least you and me in the terms of higher prices, higher insurance costs.
Ok done....
Becky
