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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by janalsncm on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:26AM (#38610243)
Agreed. I will add that we’ve come full circle on psychiatric hospitals, which is essentially what you’re describing in different words. Budget cuts and deinstitutionalization meant many of those were closed down 50 years ago.
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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by xref on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:39AM (#38610760)
In no small part because psychiatric hospitals were wildly, wildly abused. Basically you could lock people up indefinitely with no conviction of anything because someone said they’re a danger to themselves/society/whatever. Basically used like an on-shore Guantanamo.
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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by lupusreal on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @06:58AM (#38611081)
Simple solution; require convictions. The problem wasn't with locking up junkies, the problems was doing it without due process.

Create laws against public drug use, then enforce them.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by huytersd on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:09AM (#38612244)
Set them up again but increase inspections and have maximum times you can keep a person there.
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