The cost ($28,000) to house a prisoner for a year in a NC prison is finally causing lawmakers to consder changes to our laws to reduce the number of people in our prison system. Indeed they should but not because of the cost. If we are having to build more and more prisons then at some point we have to realize the system isn't working.
One of the situations I've been pointing out for years is with crack addicted girls working the streets, selling their bodies tor money to get their next fix. Society, in an effort to convince these women to stop doing what they are doing is actually making it impossible to "get out" of the business.
They move from place to place, no permanent home, and with their worldly pocession stuffed into black plastic garbage bags. When they are arrested, they lose everything. When released after two or three days in jail they no longer have a place to live or any clothes so they have to start working again to afford a room for the night and a change of clothing.
Somehow it just seems so much cheaper to get these women drug treatment, phycological treatment, and job trainning, and give them a helping hand to enable them to start live again as a clean productive person.
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