re: #492 Walter L. Newton

What is the success rate of treatment programs?

I think this is the wrong question to ask. “What are we accomplishing by incarcerating people with what is essentially a medical problem?” might be more apt, imo.

The success rate is fairly low, but then, what’s the goal? Is it to eliminate the problem, or mitigate it? I suggest elimination is impossible, a fool’s errand, and that mitigation is all that we could ever hope to achieve.