incarceration

Once upon a time collecting hummels, Precious Moments dolls, and faberge eggs used to be all the Certificate of Authenticity you needed to grant you involuntary incarceration to a padded cell of your legal guardian’s choosing.

Rush Limbaugh, Commander and Chief of all Ditto-heads, has referred to Barak Obama and Rahm Emanuel, the President-elect’s new White House Chief of Staff, as “Chicago thugs.”

Rush Limbaugh, Commander and Chief of all Ditto-heads, has referred to Barak Obama and Rahm Emanuel, the President-elect’s new White House Chief of Staff, as “Chicago thugs.”

Nashville has a mental health court and it works fairly well.  I'm not certain that anyone has tracked overall savings to the city as a result of moving people through this court versus traditional court, but anytime we can provide alternatives to jail we almost always save money.  Tha

Why is it that we repeatedly return to the miserable failure of incarceration instead of focusing on and applying the most effective solutions - treatment and/or housing of our chronic inebriates and addicts?

Berry Hill officer, Davidson County Sheriff's department draw questions, ire over arrest, jail stay, and entry into 287(g) system of Juana Villegas Tim Chávez files Amnesty International complaint, warns against visits to Music City Backlash over restraintsThe New York Times reported Sunday on the Berry Hill arrest and Davidson County incarceration of a visaless, pregnant Juana Villegas*, who

Not only do I consider it off-limits for a state to exercise the ultimate violence against one of its citizens, even when that individual has committed heinous crimes; I also think that killing the perpetrator shortens the amount of natural time for that person to experience guilt, shame, and punishment such as incarceration (with labor).

There is little doubt among experts and those who have had to endure

Arizona applies some common sense to corrections and rehab, including ending perhaps the most ridiculous and resource-wasteful approach of all by dumping the moronic zero tolerance fascism that sent people back to the pen for the tiniest of missteps.

Well, those of us out here who are recovering addicts and who have also spent time earning educations in mental health and addiction treatment have been SCREAMING to all of you for decades that treatment was needed, not more jail beds, but no one wanted to listen until it started hitting taxpayers where it hurts - in the