From McClatchyDC:
Qualifying Inmates — mostly people who have committed low-level drug offenses — can earn credits to be released from prison early and serve the remainder of their sentence in home confinement or halfway houses if they participate in the plan’s anti-recidivism programs such as job training, education and faith-based classes.The for-profit American gulag system is typified by the American Himmler Joe Arpaio. I am convinced he is violating the human and Constitutional rights of his inmates through his practices, putting people awaiting trial in tents where temperatures soar high enough to cause permanent brain damage and death, feeding them inadequate or unhealthy food, keeping them in unhealthy crowded conditions. Remember, everyone awaiting trial is innocent until proven guilty, so he's basically trying to kill innocent people, and even if they were guilty that doesn't make his treatment of these people any less disgusting. People have died in his shithole prisons and the county has paid millions to their families for their wrongful deaths. He embezzles money left and right, he uses his power to silence critics and obstruct justice, and is a worse monster than the people he is incarcerating.
Now this system is beginning to see the first stones chipped away. Non-violent offenders are being given the chance at having a life again. People with mental illness or who are suffering from addiction are being given the chance at treatment instead of being thrown in a dungeon. And millions of dollars will be saved as we are no longer forced to foot the bill for regular people who were caught with a bag of marijuana in their car and are now languishing away in prison because of "mandatory minimum" sentencing.
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