Re:Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions
by orasis on Saturday September 29, 2018 @06:57AM
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If a person can’t be helped by their close friends and family, why would one expect a monolithic system to do any better?
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Re:Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions
by Bjartr on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:01AM
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> close friends and family
First, not everyone has close friends and family. Second, dysfunctional families and bad friends are absolutely a thing and can even be the cause of problems.
Friends and family can be an important part of rehabilitation, there's no doubt in that, but I don't see a reason to abandon people just because those have failed them, if they even had them available to rely on at all.
> why would one expect a monolithic system to do any better?
Because such systems have the resources available to hire and manage trained professionals. What in particular do you think makes a monolithic system unsuitable for solving the problem of effective rehabilitation?