I'm totally in agreement with you - I think it's a crap analogy, and I think both schools and prisons have a lot that needs fixing and both are capable of being fixed without being at the expense of the other. I'm just expanding on points you brought up because prison health care was a topic I researched in grad school, and inside every social services employee is a pedantic grad student screaming to get out and show off hir learnings.
I also agree that there's better ways for people to detox - namely, at their own choice and in facilities set up for it and without a black market trade in drugs. Involuntary incarceration is so not the best place for it. But if you lock up drug offenders and don't provide them drugs, they're going to detox, like it or not. The only solution would be to provide them with drugs in controlled environments (similar to methadone clinics). Or not locking up non-violent drug offenders, which IIRC is what CA is trying now, finally.
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Date: 2011-05-31 10:20 pm (UTC)I also agree that there's better ways for people to detox - namely, at their own choice and in facilities set up for it and without a black market trade in drugs. Involuntary incarceration is so not the best place for it. But if you lock up drug offenders and don't provide them drugs, they're going to detox, like it or not. The only solution would be to provide them with drugs in controlled environments (similar to methadone clinics). Or not locking up non-violent drug offenders, which IIRC is what CA is trying now, finally.