Should Drug Offenders Be Sent To Jail

Treatment for Drug Offenders
Should drug offenders be punished and sent to jail or get help from treatment? Although some people believe that drug offenders deserve punishment and be sent to prison, drug offenders should be sent to treatment facilities rather than jail because it would help improve the community, prisons would improve and money spent on them would decrease, and it will help drug offenders find the right path. Some people argue that treatment facilities might not always work. Yes, there isn’t a guarantee that treatment facilities will always work and every drug offender who is sent there will get the help that they need. However, it is only only a small chance that treatment facilities will fail and 165 referred people to the PSAP program, 34 have been arrested, 21 of those 34 had drug charges. That is less than 20% of the PSAP program. Additionally, people who are opposed to the idea that drug offenders should be sent to treatment facilities argue …show more content…
It would cost half as much to send someone to a treatment facility rather to house someone in prison. Prisons would no longer have to focus so much on drug offenders. Additionally, there would be less prisoners. If there were less drug offenders, prisons would no longer need to worry about them and would be able to improve small things about the prisons. They would be able to improve the security and they could also improve the rehabilitation of prisoners. With less prisoners, prisons are able to put more time and money on the more violent convicts. Drug offenders are not as huge a threat to society rather to violent criminals. Since there would be less prisoners, there would be more space for the convicts that are actually a threat to society. By sending drug offenders to treatment facilities, it will ensure that as much money would be spent and improve the