From The Hill:
I served as a U.S. Marine before spending my career running some of America’s most complex prisons. Those years taught me about leadership, structure and the human cost when systems bend and break. Here is what I learned: Corrections is not only about punishment or security, and it is not the end of the justice process. Rather, it is where everything we fail to fix upstream finally shows up.
Inside, we do not just manage the incarcerated. We deal with untreated addiction, mental illness, trauma and poverty, with few resources for success. In the 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates, nearly two-thirds said they used drugs in the month before arrest, and about half met the criteria for a substance use disorder in the year before admission. Roughly one in four said they had been told they had major depression.
These are not one-off issues. They pile up in the corrections system.
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