This is disgusting, #CruelAndUnusual punishment - prisons are denying inmates meds that would help tremendously with addiction treatment, doesn't get them high.
The real stuff is very expensive on the black market; some get so desperate they turn to much more dangerous drugs. ⬇️
The real stuff is very expensive on the black market; some get so desperate they turn to much more dangerous drugs. ⬇️
https://twitter.com/schwartzapfel/status/1602327069471432704
Instead, prisons erect unrealistic barriers to treatment, which gets inmates hurt, while making 💰 for smugglers. Those often ARE guards, or one can assume the others find ways to compensate them to 🙈🙉🙊.
One thing the article doesn't make explicit is that by ONLY letting... 2/
One thing the article doesn't make explicit is that by ONLY letting... 2/
...patients get this treatment when they're close to release date, each time they're busted, prison takes away early release, puts them in solitary confinement, which directly makes more money for the folks who make decisions. When the SHU is full, they need more guard-hours. 3/
When a prison is run for profit, & the government pays owners more for being full, capitalism creates incentive to find every excuse possible to deny early release, keep the cells overcrowded, even for those trying to improve their lives.
The incentives are perverse. 4/4
The incentives are perverse. 4/4
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