Drugs & Prison

I do not think it is fear that people involved with drugs are sent off to prison instead of rehab. These junkies get no help because once they are released, they have no support system to help them stay clean. They just go right back into their old habits. I'm thinking that the guy from 30 Days who was going through heroin withdrawal, will not lead a successful life after prison. He will probably just go back to doing heroin. It also doesn't make sense that people caught with marijuana can serve more years in prison than rapists and murderers. Drugs hurt oneself, rapists and murderers are hurting (killing) other people. Keeping the killers in prison is way more important than locking up the junkies. After reading the article, I know how inhumane the prison system is. The guards blame everything on drugs. When a person complains of feeling sick they say they are "dope-sick" or just going through withdrawal. Although this is the case sometimes, when that crippled man complained of an illness, they blamed it on the drugs. However, it wasn't drugs at all. And the man died because of that misjudgement. Prisons must reform and lock the right criminals up in jail. The prisons are already overcrowded, thus, they should just send the people involved with drugs off to rehab. The people in prison aren't getting much resocialization because all they do is eat and sleep. They don't do anything to reform themselves. That is why 2/3 of released inmates go back to prison.