From now on whenever I do or say something awful to somebody I\u2019m gonna tell them, \u201cBut it\u2019s a form of therapy!\u201d<\/p>\n
Story #1, from last year: \u201cTo Stay Out of Jail, Must Nonviolent Offenders Submit to Medical Diagnoses?\u201d<\/p>\n
Last week, those favoring reductions in prison populations and their associated costs applauded Attorney General Eric Holder\u2019s announcement that he\u2019s seeking an end to mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders. For administration critics who feel drug war reforms have been too long in coming, the news was a welcome sign that real ground is being gained during Obama\u2019s presidency. Inside the administration, there\u2019s clearly a sense of accomplishment. \u201cIt\u2019s a really important shift,\u201d says Raphael Lamaitre, Communications Director for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). \u201cSubstance abuse touches everybody, it\u2019s the great equalizer. For years we\u2019ve had too many people in prison and we haven\u2019t been looking at why they\u2019re there.\u201d<\/p>\n
But as the excitement over the mandatory minimum announcement cools, some public health and drug policy professionals are finding devils in the details of Holder\u2019s statement. Specifically, critics are troubled by the latter parts of Holder\u2019s address that highlight the requirement of mandatory court stipulated drug treatment as a requirement for nonviolent drug offenders to stay out of jail. Laura Thomas, deputy director for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) in California, says, \u201cIt\u2019s always good to have someone like Eric Holder talking about the counterproductive harms of over incarceration, that\u2019s really fantastic. But there is a concern that putting people into coerced drug treatment is not a health based approach, it\u2019s a criminal justice approach.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
more<\/a>\u2013I see no way using medical treatment as punishment could ever go wrong.<\/p>\n
And your recent tale:<\/p>\n
\u2026For years, New Beginnings founder and CEO Tom Atchison has sent his unpaid homeless labor crews to Tampa Bay Rays, Lightning and Bucs games, the Daytona 500 and the Florida State Fair. For their shelter, he\u2019s had homeless people work in construction, landscaping, telemarketing, moving, painting, even grant-writing.<\/p>\n
Atchison calls it \u201cwork therapy.\u201d Homeless advocates and labor lawyers call it exploitative, and possibly illegal. It is the latest questionable way Atchison has used homeless people, and public money, a Tampa Bay Times<\/i> investigation has found. \u2026<\/p>\n
Atchison has worked homeless residents in an array of jobs to bring money to New Beginnings. He\u2019s sent them to do construction, mow lawns, paint houses, move furniture. He started telemarketing and landscaping companies staffed by New Beginnings residents.<\/p>\n
Around his church he\u2019s had them answer phones, write grants and play alongside him in the church\u2019s band. (Atchison plays trombone.)<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they come in the program \u2014 this sounds a bit bad \u2014 they become our property to help us help them become new people,\u201d said Anthony Raburn, a minister who works with Atchison. \u201cThere are expenses that go along with that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
lots more<\/a> (via Maia Szalavitz<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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