What an excellent idea! Now if only this moves out to the rest of the country.
Heading from classes on a local college campus to his job inside a brewery, Corey Stern has to make one stop.
He has to go to jail.
It will not take long, though, because this jail is organized so that inmates are in and out every few minutes.
Known as day reporting, the concept allows convicted and accused offenders in La Crosse County to avoid time behind bars as long as they appear before county staffers once a day, or whenever required.
The arrangement is growing in popularity in Wisconsin as a low-cost alternative to building more jail cells.
Despite the inconvenience of reporting to the county five times a week and undergoing drug monitoring, Barry admits that the close supervision is helping her stay on the straight and narrow.
“They try to help you get your life back in shape,” she said.
Makes sense, for certain offenses anyway. Jail has never been a solution to crime – it’s always been a way to get rid of criminals.
Originally Jail was tough, it’s no picnic now, but comparatively it is. It was a deterrent, but It doesn’t work like that now.
Reform is way overdue.
OMFG…
If the gubment would just decriminalize marijuana, the barroom brawls would be cut down, meth and crack users would have something else fun to choose, and we would have a LOT of raw materials for making alternative fuels.
Won’t happen though — the government knows that the weed also makes people rebellious, and with this Iraq and Iran and Korea and Venezuela and China stuff going on, they can’t handle civil uprisings.
BTW: I support our current wars. Although they suck to be involved in; and yes, we’re stuffing our beliefs down others’ throats (ironically the main belief is that people should be free); I’d rather the war be fought on somebody elses’ shores than in my backyard.
w00t!
What goes on in jails in this country is shameful. Any idea that attempts to reform the system is a good one in my book.
#2 Weed makes people rebellious? All it ever did to me was make me want more Doritos and/or want to sleep.
I agree with #4. Who wants to hang out in a bar with a bunch of drunks when you’re stoned?
Who could drive that far?
This is a good idea. If the convicted stray just a little they spend more then a few nights behind bars. If they follow the rules, they keep their jobs, support their families, and remain productive members of society.
There should be more programs like this. They are a lot cheaper then building more jails.
Weed doesn’t make people rebellious, but smoking/ingesting weed, enjoying it and discovering that it hasn’t driven them to violent crime or harder drugs does show people the government lies to them. Then they figure out the government lies all the time, about anything.
Even (or maybe especially) its reasons for making war on a smaller country located halfway ’round the world.
That’s the point where people may start feeling rebellious.
We have had this system in our town for twenty years. I am surprised the rest of the country is not doing this. We still managed to fill our year old jail to to its limit. Do not know what the answer is but we seem to lock up a lot more people in our country then others do.
lol corey stern is from french island by the way but no longer lives there….anyways defintley a good program with many benifits