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NJ: Close Hospitals? Why not Close Prisons Instead!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Close Hospitals? Why not Close Prisons Instead! Posted by David H. Kerr May 04, 2008 3:05PM NJ.Com This budget alternative should be considered by our Governor and legislature since it not only will save millions but will increase the safety of our citizens. It is the real "tough on crime" alternative while allowing hospitals to continue caring for the sick and needy. Judge Dennis Challeen of the National Judicial College, a judge in Minnesota who retired in 1985, once declared that there were two kinds of offenders, those we are afraid of, who should be locked up, and those we are mad at, who hurt themselves with substance abuse. For the latter, he found the following inconsistency in dealing with them with imprisonment: "We want them to have self-worth, so we destroy their self-worth...continue to full post

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