Those people we afraid of because they will hurt someone or properly secured but program did not forgotten in those people that we are just mad at and dont have any other alternatives, we build alternatives in the community to deal with those folks. Intervention in little. It has not been used as much, but we want to expand the opportunity. We want to give the judge an opportunity. Forget about mandatory sentences. Opposingnkly, we are almost all mandatory sentences. We have judges to make decisions for lets not high their hands and say they have to send someone to prison. A person comes in and the judge says i want to be helped, or the judge convinces them and much like the drug courts we have talked about, or veterans courts or Mental Health courts, they enter into a program of diversion and they talk about with the judge what they need to do and they set specific times and goals and if they do it, one of the greatest things judges are great positive influences on people. If they kno
I think it is both. You can see the consistency between males and females in terms of the top five. Drug possession is the number one most serious offense for which people are sent to prison in ohio. 21. 5 of females, women, their most serious offense for which they are sent to prisons drug possession. You can see the following numbers on the sheet. On the screen. As we take a look at this, is it a problem or is it an opportunity. The opportunity for everyone in this room, and i think our justice talked about it earlier. Everyone in this room is going to have to talk about this story , and the story of your jurisdiction. I happened to be at a church about three weeks ago on a tuesday night doing a criminal andice information piece, the church was full, which is interesting thing. The church was full. It is a lot of interest. I asked a couple of preliminary questions before i started talking. The first is how are we doing in the criminal justice business . I would suggest to you that th