I agree that incarceration is not a place for treatment for drug addiction and / or mental illness. If anything it can make things much worse. These institutions are not equiped.
Nor is letting people like your brother loose on the Street.
I'm sorry that our system is so broken and that we do not have facilities and the personnel to handle mental illness exasperated by drug addiction. We all lose. I'm so sorry for you and your family and your brother. Our society is broken. And I think the kinds of drugs that we have on in the street have had a lot to do with how broken it is. I also think our attitude about crime, addiction and incarceration needs complete rethinking. I don't think we're making any gains and I do think there's a lot of unintended consequences. And I like most people I'm frustrated with how dysfunctional our society has become.
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