Opinion: It took the federal Justice Department just six words recently to sum up the central problem with mandatory minimum jail sentences: “They have failed to deter crime.”
It took the federal Justice Department just six words recently to sum up the central problem with mandatory minimum jail sentences: “They have failed to deter crime.”
Crown Attorneys are now mandated to consider drug treatment options instead of criminal prosecutions. Judges will have greater discretion to craft creative community-based sentences that put saving lives and health ahead of imprisonment. The harms forced upon these communities by tough-on-crime policies cannot be diminished. Innumerable children have been separated from their incarcerated parents, while significantly increasing the risk of falling into a vicious cycle of crime themselves. Meanwhile, offenders languish behind bars at an estimated cost of $400 per day when they could have otherwise benefited from treatment and programming in the community for a fraction of the price.
British Columbia, for example, is desperate to curtail its rapidly climbing death toll from drug overdoses. Amongst other measures under consideration, it intends to experiment next year with the decriminalization of small amounts of certain drugs.
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