REHAB NEEDED, NOT JAIL TIME

Editor:

Who pays the price for alcohol and drug offenders? Answer: Our families and
the taxpayers. Don't get me wrong; jail is no walk in the park.

But wouldn't it be more of a punishment to us to be sentenced to a
rehabilitation facility and made to pay fines, than to sit in a regional jail?

Regional jails don't offer rehab, and being an addict, rehabilitation is
what we need. Speaking for myself, it would be more of a correction going
to a rehab and paying fines for my crime than to sit here waiting for a
space to open up in prison.

It's not the taxpayers' fault, and it's not my family's fault, so why make
them pay for my mistake?

Nelvin Moreland

Southern Regional Jail