For Reed, who said he has struggled with an addiction to crack cocaine, going to jail has meant losing his disability checks, his only source of income. Without income, he has no way to pay rent, and he fears that unless a family member can take him in, he will be homeless when he is released in September.
I have zero sympathy for this guy. He shoplifted a set of bedsheets from Target, and relies on disability money and theft to support his drug habit. He needs to be in jail.
Maybe jail will convince him to turn his li8fe around. That being said, if we were to fill the jails/prisons up, I’d rather fill them up with hard core/violent criminals, not petty thieves.
So this guy gets out and will return to jail at some time. It’s not sympathy he needs and the msm knows that. In the meantime WE pay for all this crap.
The dude needs serious help, not jail.
I get the whole “he needs to be in jail thing”
But that does not cure addicts