We need criminal justice reform. Why was the pet goat of a 9 year old girl slaughtered against her will? Here is the story. Maybe you have experienced injustice in your life. Apparently this is the human condition as "all have sinned." We need guidelines and those in authority to uphold justice. In our country we are assumed innocent until proven guilty. In many other countries Roman law is used-- you are guilty until you are proven innocent.
In American history many ways of law enforcement have been used. This is from the Britannica. Then in 1974 Chuck Colson as a new Christian, voluntarily pled guilty to obstruction of justice and served seven months in Alabama’s Maxwell Prison for his part in the Watergate scandal.In 1976, he founded Prison Fellowship, which is now the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving prisoners, former prisoners, and their families, and a leading advocate for criminal justice reform.
For years many have been working and praying for prison reform. One program in Rhode Island has met with success. Eric Johnson in his report "Seattle is Dying" informed us about MAT. While successful in Rhode Island, there are obstacles in implementing MAT inmate programs nationwide. First, MAT for inmates programs need widespread political support. In Rhode Island, the state government has approved $2 million in funds annually for medication-assisted therapy programs in prisons.
Secondly, MAT inmate programs can be problematic to implement in states with complex correction systems. Rhode Island has a corrections system which is compact and has no county jails. All inmates are brought to one center , and the state prisons are located on the same campus.
Dogs would not be left to their own on the streets. Why do we leave the mentally ill and drug addicted on the streets? Why do we leave criminals on the streets? Government should be held accountable to enforce the laws or if the laws are not working they should be changed.
Will men and women of integrity apply and serve in law enforcement or will we continue to collapse into anarchy?
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
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