PWA Support Groups and Halfway Houses

Every prison yard ive been to has posted lists of halfway houses and support groups and their addresses. I’ve never seen ASOs or CBOs and their services (including housing) listed. Why? I know inmates are target population for both prevention and services. Every yard has a warden and health educator that can be called to make sure the information is posted. Inclusion on the list does not breech anyone’s confidentiality.

Bath Salts and Spice

New legal readily available items on the streets are drastically changing the face of drug use in prison. Many people prefer snorting bath salts to cocaine. Drug dogs cant sniff out bath salts and they are really inexpensive. All of the same reasons make it popular in prison. This is the same for spice, a popular alternative to marijuana. Because search dogs cant find it everybody that wants it, has it. An $80 container of bath salts brought into the prison is sold line by line with a possible profit of $700. Time will tell how this will effect prison life. So far it has increased tensions and violence for all and the flow of money for some.
Similar scenario to the streets.

Murder Gene

Its my prediction that science will kill the death penalty. We’d like to think that genetics have nothing to do with criminal behavior but in some cases it does.

Neuroscience and genetics are starting to show that some people are born with a predisposition to violence. A predisposition brings culpability into question and can be used as a mitigating factor. Mitigation can produce a reprieve from a governor or life in prison instead of execution. In some states genetic evidence has already reduced murder charges to manslaughter.